page_title: Vladimir Bodiansky
section_title: ATBAT
hierarchical_section_title: Vladimir Bodiansky / ATBAT
caption_attribution_description: English: Unitè d'habitation in Marseille
context_page_description: Vladimir Bodiansky was a French engineer with origins in Russia and a specialty in modern architecture.
context_section_description: Bodiansky met Le Corbusier during the Second World War, and together they organized a team of architects and engineers to engage in the postwar reconstruction. This led to the formation of the Atelier des Bâtisseurs (ATBAT, builders' workshop), an interdisciplinary research group, in 1945. After the war, Bodiansky accompanied Le Corbusier on a trip to the United States, where he was impressed with the interdisciplinary approach of the TVA projects. On their return to France Bodiansky took the leadership of ATBAT and reorganized it as a collaborative research center.
  Over the next few years, Bodiansky as head of ATBAT collaborated with Le Corbusier on the realization of some of his best-known buildings, including the Unité d'habitation in Marseille and the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York.
caption: Facade of Unitè d'habitation, Marseille
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