The recently renovated residence is located in a modernist housing development in Pessac, a suburb of Bordeaux.
Among Le Corbusierâs notable contributions to 20th-century architecture were his ideas for low-cost social housing, which he famously advanced in the 1923 manifesto Vers une Architecture (Toward an Architecture). Around this same time, the visionary architect began working on the Quartiers Modernes Frugès, a master-planned community of several dozen homes in Pessac, France. Nearly a century later, the development is still buzzing with residentsâone of whom recently listed a choice corner unit for sale.
This two-story corner residence is one of approximately fifty units that Le Corbusier designed for Quartiers Modernes Frugès in Pessac, France.