Almost like home
2021-2022After moving to Marseille from Moscow in 2009 and losing touch with the places I grew up in, I began to explore the city and its architecture in search of inner balance, trying to adapt to the new environment.
In frequent walks with a camera, I stumbled upon something familiar - residential buildings of the mid-fifties in Marseille that are reminiscent of Moscow's collective dwellings like Ginzburg’s Narkomfin apartment complex. Although the best example would be Le Corbusier’s unité d'habitation, my personal interest was in buildings with external corridors leading to flats that are for me the very essence of rational approach in architecture.
Coming back again and again to capture these buildings seemed like returning home.
