Le Corbusier

Collection title

For a life, for a city

ID

INA00488

Source

INA (FR)

First broadcast date

11/26/1972

Production year

1972

Abstract

‘Sun, Space, Greenery’: these are the essential joys that Le Corbusier wanted to conciliate, in the town planning to which he had thought of, to rebuild Algiers. The architect vehemently criticizes the unlivable world man is building for himself: ‘those locative cages where civilized people live like rats, in holes’. Nevertheless, he is enthusiastic about the construction in terraces and alleys of the Casbah where life grows organically, with a contrast between the outside and inside of these houses with courtyards and fountains, and where ‘the warriors can taste the joy of living’. Throughout his work, Le Corbusier will remember the lesson of Africa.

Type

video

Production companies

• ORTF - Own production

Broadcaster

ORTF

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Personalities

Primary theme

Architecture

Credits / Cast

• Roche Manuelle - Director

Period of events

• From 1925 to 1950

Map locations

• Algeria - Centre - Algiers

Original language

French

Media running time

31m18

Additional information