First English edition. Black hardcover with title in white on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers.Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear. Price-clipped. 200pp. 70 b/w illustrations. This book describes the Quartiers Modernes Fruges built by Le Corbusier at Pessac c.1926, and how the houses have been altered by the occupants over the forty years since (the text was originally published in France in 1969). It is a fascinating socio-architectural study which casts light on the important relationship between an architect's intentions and the occupants' needs and reactions.