Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier’s Pessac Revisited (1972)

Socio-architectural study of Le Corbusier’s housing project, Cité Frugès, in Pessac, France. The book, first published in 1969, investigates how the residents of Pessac modified the modernist houses designed by Le Corbusier. Through interviews and architectural analysis, Boudon explores the tension between the architect’s original vision and the practical changes made by inhabitants over time, documenting alterations to the buildings such as the addition of new rooms, changes to windows, and modifications to terraces and roofs. Condition: very good in slightly edge-worn dust-wrapper.