Im starting something new here, its a kind of a guilty pleasure.... It is finding random concepts that i may or may not know or understand completely and searching for them in the web (normally landing in wikipedia).
So heres the deal: I will start posting brief descriptions of concepts you may or may not know to help us all express our ideas and thoughts in a more elaborate manner and in a more intellectual approach.
1. Ville Radieuse (French pronunciation: [vil ʁadjøz], Radiant City) was an unrealised project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1924.
Although Le Corbusier had exhibited his ideas for the ideal city, the Ville Contemporaine in the 1920s, during the early 1930s, after contact with international planners he began work on the Ville Radieuse. In 1930 he had become an active member of the syndicalist movement and proposed the Ville Radieuse as a blueprint of social reform.
The principles of the Ville Radieuse were incorporated into his later publication, the Athens Charter published in 1943.
His utopian ideal formed the basis of a number of urban plans during the 1930s and 1940s culminating in the design and construction of the firstUnité d’Habitation inMarseilles in 1952.
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