ROOM AT THE TOP

摘要

Say what you like about modernism's flat roof fetish, at least the removal of the pitch opened up possibilities for what could happen up there. In the inter-war early-modern phase, the drive for 'light and air' - so important to a population where tuberculosis was rife, and antibiotics yet to be discoveredoften led to the roof becoming an open-air gym. At Loos's Villa Miiller in Prague, a summer living room on the roof leads to a terrace with a bracing outdoor shower. And Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles boasts an entire urban realm in the sky.