Hello, Fada: Le Corbusier's Radiant Rooftop Revealed
Nearly 50 years after his death, Le Corbusier is the man of the moment. The Swiss-born French multitasker is the subject of an exhibition (on view through September 23) at the Museum of Modern Art and the creator of a lamp that inspired Kanye West‘s latest album, while across the pond, Corbu’s modernist housing complex has been reborn at the hands of a self-described “iconoclastic artist,” aged 36. We sent our man in Marseille Marc Kristal up on the roof.
(Photo: Olivier Amsellem)
It’s been a big year for architecture in Marseille.
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