Le Corbusier's Cité Frugès: A garden city for workers in Pessac

In the suburb of Bordeaux, the Cité Frugès was built in 1926 by the architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret for the industrialist Henry Frugès. Located in the northeast of Pessac, the complex was designed as a garden city for workers. It was constructed on a vast prairie surrounded by pine woods, and the 51 homes built there represent seven different types, including zig-zag, quinconce, and skyscraper designs.

The houses feature flat roofs, geometric shapes, modular construction, and polychromatic facades with ribbon windows. These structures served as a full-scale laboratory for the architect's innovative ideas. In 1980, the house at 3 rue des Arcades, which is an arcade type, became the first to be listed as a historic monument. Other houses in the complex, such as those at 4 rue des Arcades and 27 rue Xavier-Arnozan, have also received historic monument protections in recent years.

Visitors can visit the Maison municipale Frugès - Le Corbusier at 4 rue Le Corbusier, which is open to the public and hosts various exhibitions. This house is a skyscraper type and was classified as a historic monument in 2013. It houses a model of the entire complex made by Henry and Christiane Frugès in 1967. The entire Cité Frugès was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2016.

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