Le Corbusier de Pessac - Documentaire de Jean-Marie Bertineau (2013)

In 1924, in Pessac, a suburb of Bordeaux, two pragmatic idealists, Henry Frugès and Charles Edouard Jeanneret, decided to build a garden city for workers. The former was a wealthy sugar industrialist, heir to the great tradition of 19th-century humanist bosses who wanted to house his employees in comfort, and the latter was an architect whose name was still unknown: Le Corbusier. Almost a century later, with the help of current residents, some of whom have inherited their parents' or grandparents' homes, as well as historians and architects, we learn the story of this city conceived by Le Corbusier. The Pessac city, an exceptional laboratory for social housing, is one of the great architect's pioneering works of modern architecture. Classified as a Historical Monument since the early 1980s and soon to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the working-class houses of the Frugès housing estate have become the object of much curiosity! A film by Jean-Marie Bertineau Vie des hauts production