What did the MAMO?

A place of artistic creation in the sky. It is here, at the top of the city bright built between 1945 and 1952, moved the MAMO created by Ora Ito. The masterpiece of Le Corbusier's offers new territory by becoming the jewel and the springboard for the future creation.

In this new exception art center, Corbu mind blowing, impulse and release. MAMO as Marseille Modulor, MAMO as Marseille open hand. It is under a double meaning that the MAMO takes its brands. Sculptor, Le Corbusier drew a hand open, completed after his death and installed in Chandigarh in India; This hand already, blesses the MAMO. Now, hand and MAMO good bedfellows. Two hands for tomorrow. To welcome, to enter, to help the creation and artists. To also take everyone by the hand. There where the spirit, the scattered symbols make sense.

The city bright is not a monument, it's a manifesto. Concrete bar built on stilts, dubbed housing unit by Le Corbusier, its architect, renamed "the House of the Fada" by local residents, known and celebrated by all lovers of architecture around the world, this residence of 337 duplex apartments is a vertical village, with its streets, its restaurant, groceries, his Bookstore, his hotel, his crib and his school.

Liner anchored concrete in the Middle Earth, the bright city is adorned with a roof terrace which is still a ship's deck, a lookout in the sky. The look is kiss the territory at 360 °.

Behind the MAMO, Ora Ito passion.

Recognized worldwide at the age of 19 years for his creations from international brands on the web, it is without doubt the first iconic digital designer. His works have been acquired by the National Fund of contemporary (FNAC) Art. Since then, he has made a name in the creation of real products. Active in the fields of design and architecture. In 2002, he received the oscar for the best design for its Heineken aluminium bottle. He has since worked for the biggest international brands: Adidas, Guerlain, Christofle, Pucci, Decaux... His furniture are published by Cappellini, Frighetto, Zanotta, Roche Bobois, Artemide. He is planning the flagships Toyota and Lancaster... restaurants like the Nano and the hotel Odyssey. Whether it's the design of highways or an object of consumption areas, he always seeks to project them into the future while taking into account the real and its constraints. His goal? Invent possible. Actor all-out, phosphorescent creative, Ora Ito is an Altruist, an agitator born whose passion for forms joined substantive concerns: how to better live together? How to foster the enjoyment, sharing and culture? Ora Ito lived for 15 years between Paris and Marseille. With the MAMO, it wants to build bridges of pleasures and meetings. We are all invited.

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Be aware that the visit of the radiant city
and its roof-top terrace
worth the trip alone!

The radiant city

The city bright is not a monument, it's a manifesto. Concrete bar built on stilts, dubbed housing unit by Le Corbusier, its architect, renamed "the House of the Fada" by local residents, known and celebrated by all lovers of architecture around the world, this residence of 337 duplex apartments is a vertical village, with its streets, its restaurant, groceries, his Bookstore, his hotel, his crib and his school.
Liner anchored concrete in the Middle Earth, the bright city is adorned with a roof terrace which is still a ship's deck, a lookout in the sky. The look is kiss the territory at 360 °.

Le Corbusier (1887-1965)

Le Corbusier (1887-1965): architect to the considerable influence, 'new spirit' theorist, propagator of the modern movement, he is the father of the Modulor, a stylized human figure intended to serve as a yardstick in all parts of a building.

In the aftermath of the war, he offers his "housing units" and directed the city Radieuse in Marseille. Great theoretician, he continued his publications with the Modulor (1950), presentation of modern architecture. The following year, he went to India to achieve many schools of Chandigarh (the Capitol, the courthouse, the Secretariat and the Assembly Palace). Large modern urbanist architect, le Corbusier deeply marks the 20th century. Great modern architect, Le Corbusier had begun the work of his"dwelling" in 1947. Concrete building which put on functionality, the bright city of Marseille is based on stilts and includes nearly 340 housing. The architectural innovation of the building will result in a certain rejection on the part of the population, which will give him the nickname of "House of the fada", which does not to be considered a success. Le Corbusier will carry out four other "housing units" in Rezé, Firminy, Briey in the forest and Berlin. The Marseille building will be a historical monument in 1986.

The Modulor

Le Corbusier built and represents its grid on the silhouette of a man standing, raising one arm. By building a human scale, the Corbusier joined including the architects of ancient Greece. Like those he designed the architectural space that the body will recognize.

His reflection on the behavior of humans, on the balance of the volumes of their dimensions and proportions led him to establish a grid of measures based on the "Golden number". It built its grid from different parts of the human body and calls it "the Modulor". A size 1, 83 m, the silhouette raises an arm to reach the height of 2, 26 m. Declined, these harmonious proportions regulate relationships of scale between all elements of the bright city. Doors, windows, lighters, ramps, markets... everything is seized and magnified in this reinterpretation of the golden ratio, rewriting caustic of a universal symbol. Born from the meeting of the Module and the Golden number, used and put into practice for the first time in the dwelling of Marseille, the Modulor is a suitcase word whose content remains to be explored. It is primarily the taking into account of man, "that animal who must be able to be tethered at his ease in the space of his house", which guides the architectural choice of Le Corbusier. "Nature is mathematical, the masterpieces of art are in consonance with the nature. They express the laws of nature and use them." This is the creed on which Le Corbusier based its action. The modulor will be added a need for standardization as well in architecture and engineering. This standardization is necessary aesthetically, "for more harmony" and economically in this phase of urgent reconstruction in the aftermath of the war. The need is building mass housing (Corbusier goes up to talk about "machine for living"). The modulor is used to meet a human scale.

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