Synopsis
For Charles-Eduard Jeanneret, an architect who called himself Le Corbusier, the Pessac housing complex was the first opportunity to design architecture for "entirely normal" people. He has already drafted cities for up to three million inhabitans, but his actual clients were all wealthy citizens. One of these was Henry Fruges, for whom he had built a provate home and from whom he was subsequently awarded a contract to construct a housing complex for the workers at his sugar factory near Bordeaux. The fifty-one houses, built between 1925 and 1929, are still inhabited today, with different levels of respect shown to the famous architect.