Field trip: Unité d'Habitation, Marseille

Guest starring Provence-by-way-of-LA photographer Laure Joliet

Me in my element (ogling concrete, trespassing imminent). All photos by Laure Joliet.

In this issue, I have a very special guest: Laure Joliet, who is sharing the photographs she took earlier this fall on our friend date to the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, designed by Le Corbusier and completed in 1952. The building embodies a post-war housing concep…