Unité d'Habitation of Berlin
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Year
- 1956
- Typology
- Housing
- Materials
- Concrete
- Context
- Brutalism, Modernism, International Style
- Map
- Open location
Unité d'Habitation of Berlin is a 1958 apartment building located in Berlin-Westend, Germany, designed by Le Corbusier following his concept of Unité d'Habitation. Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation concept was materialised in four other buildings in France with a similar design. The building is constructed in béton brut and is part of the initial architecture style we know today as brutalism. The structure was built with on site prefab cast concrete panels and poured ceiling slabs. The Modulor system is the base measure of the Unité and Corbusier used not more than 15 Modulor measures to construct the entire structure form. The work was ultimately deleted from Le Corbusier's oeuvre, which he himself affirmed until his death in 1965, and which was again confirmed posthumously in 1967 with the final publication of his authorized oeuvre.
