{"id":651967,"date":"2026-05-06T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:19:13","slug":"cristian-chironi-has-been-inhabiting-le-corbusiers-houses-for-years-what-theyre-really-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651967\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristian Chironi has been inhabiting Le Corbusier&#8217;s houses for years: what they&#8217;re really like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>And yet, when Chironi actually goes into these houses-and stays there, uses them, goes through them-something changes. &#8220;I disagree,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>In the duplex inhabited within the Unit\u00e9 d&#8217;Habitation in Marseille, the house is organized around the body: &#8220;My center of gravity stood still, I simply made a movement and so I cooked, washed dishes, dried. The use of minimum space with maximum comfort.&#8221; The large window holds interior and exterior together, the light changes throughout the day, the landscape enters the space: &#8220;in the morning I had all the pinks of dawn, in the evening all the reds of sunset.&#8221; And the wind across the terrace-often cited as a limitation-becomes part of the experience: the mistral crosses the building as a continuous sound, and Chironi records it, follows it, listens to it under the pilotis, turns it into working material. &#8220;I got tired of working, I went up &#8230; the old man strolled, the children played, the couples kissed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; And yet, when Chironi actually goes into these houses-and stays there, uses them, goes through them-something changes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-651967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}