marseille | aging modernism

Archive for the ‘marseille’ Category

the house of the mad man

04Jul10

It is the local name for Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation (or Cité Radieuse). Inspired by a culture of resistance to architectural innovation that endangers the typical southern French style, this building is known by most residents as the butt of a joke. But the building, one of France’s first high-rise social housing complex, has what […]

Filed under: marseille | Leave a Comment
Tags: commercial space, le corbusier, marseille, residential, unite d'habitation

en route
cities

ahmedabad ankara bahir.dar berlin brasilia cairo chandigarh eisenhüttenstadt istanbul jaipur jerusalem latina le.mirail ljubljana marseille novibeograd pessac randstad sarcelles st.petersburg tel.aviv tolyatti urbino venice [themes] [traveling]
melissa k smith: background

An architect and urban researcher from Michigan, USA, now based in Ahmedabad, India, I hold Master degrees in architecture and city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

I received the John K. Branner Fellowship in 2010, for that year traveled the world to look at the way people adapt, shift and change the modern city experiments of the mid-century. This blog was my main link while on the road. Posted as the project developed, these insights into the transformative capacity of people occupying a planned environment have formed the base for my current practice and research endeavors.

I am presently practicing with Sachin Bandukwala as partners in banduksmithstudio, a design and research practice in Ahmedabad, and teaching in the planning faculty at CEPT University. I welcome any comments, suggestions or ideas of collaboration!
Archives
fellow Branner Fellows
links
Support
- john k. branner fellowship
Email Subscription

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 72 other followers

Archive for the ‘marseille’ Category

the house of the mad man

en route

cities

melissa k smith: background

Archives

fellow Branner Fellows

links

Support

Email Subscription

Follow “aging modernism”