Archinect - News2024-11-14T11:55:21-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/135261768/cap-d-agde-a-naked-city-in-the-south-of-france
Cap d'Agde: a naked city in the south of France Nicholas Korody2015-08-27T14:15:00-04:00>2015-08-27T14:04:48-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wc/wcfeh8lampd9ctru.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In the mid-1960s, the De Gaulle-instigated Mission Racine to develop Languedoc-Roussillon’s tourist economy created six modernist seaside resorts from scratch, each a day’s boat ride apart – still one of the largest state-run development schemes ever.
...there was some ideological overlap between the purifying doctrines of naturism and modernism: Le Corbusier himself enjoyed airing his bits on the Cote d’Azur and shared the same teacher as Cap d’Agde’s chief architect, Jean le Couteur.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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