Atbat

Multi-disciplinary organization of architects, engineers, technicians, site managers and administrators based in Paris and active from 1947 to 1966. It was formed under the leadership of VLADIMIR BODIANSKY on the initiative of Le Corbusier, originally to carry out the detailed engineering design and construction of Le Corbusier's Unit? d'Habitation (1945-52) in Marseille. The creation of ATBAT responded to a need for closer association between architects and engineers from the inception of a project; it was derived from Le Corbusier's research collective ASCORAL (Assembl?e des Constructeurs pour une R?novation Architecturale), formed in Paris (1943) to provide the basis for reconstruction after World War II (see LE CORBUSIER,

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