Ms. Moreau, the longtime Unité d’Habitation resident, recently said she has grown accustomed to being asked about her memories and the architecture’s importance. Each year, thousands of architecture fans descend on the Unité, taking photos even in the bathrooms. “Sometimes I think it’s a bit nuts,” she joked. She has visited Le Corbusier’s works as far afield as Harvard’s campus and Chandigarh, India. She still feels a thrill at the sweeping sea views from her building’s rooftop, she said. And she finds some comfort in aging while rooted in architecture that made waves when it was new. Even as a girl, she said, “I just understood it was a special place.”
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- Dredging Up Old Modern Memories, Monday, May 6, 2019 - 12:00