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Ein Meilenstein in Le Corbusiers Bemühungen um den sozialen Wohnbau: die Arbeitersiedlungen von Pessac. in 1923/24 Henry Frugès, a Bordeaux industrialist commissioned Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret with a "small workers housing estate" in Lège and a garden city in Pessac, comprising 130 to 150 houses with shops. These two housing schemes fitted neatly into the architects research on standardisation and the "machine à habiter", and provided a useful laboratory for gauging public opinion with regard to mass-production techniques in housing estates. One of the most striking features of the Cité Frugès was the use of polychromy on the exterior facades, to, in Le Corbusier's own words, "sculpt the space through the physical quality of colour - bring forward some volumes while making others recede. In short, compose with colour in the same way as we have composed with form. This is how architecture is transformed into urbanism." Historical documents and drawings make this handy-sized volume an invaluable guide for visitors and a practical introduction for all architectural enthusiasts.

Quartiers modernes Frugès (Pessac, France) --- Working class --- Dwellings --- Le Corbusier, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pessac (France) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Employment --- Jeanneret-Gris, Charles Edouard, --- Gris, Charles Edouard Jeanneret-, --- Jeanneret, Charles Edouard, --- Corbusier, Edouard le, --- Le Corbusier, Eduard, --- Le Corbusier-Saugnier, --- Corbusier, --- Kebiyi, --- Korubyujie, --- Ле Корбюзьє, --- Le Kebuxiye, --- Le Korbi︠u︡zʹe, --- Lu Kūrbūziyah, --- Ru Korubyujie, --- Rangnalei, Chaersi Aidehua, --- 勒・柯布西耶, --- 让纳雷, 查尔斯・爱德华, --- Pessac, France