The city of Berlin has come to take part : for the occasion of the great International "Inter-Bau" Exposition in the Tiergarten Park it has decided to offer a demonstration of a Unité d'habitation de grandeur conforme. And it has donated its most beautiful site-the Olympic Hill in Charlottenburg. A Unité d'habitation de grandeur conforme of 400 lodgings, nearly 2000 people, will crown the hill. The Unité of Charlottenburg benefits from preceding experience, in functioning as well as in proportioning.

Despite his strenuous objections, Le Corbusier’s working plans for the Unité in Berlin were not respected. For all intensive purposes, the building corresponds, in its functional aspects to a Unité d’habitation of Congruent Size. However the manner of execution and the aesthetical interpretation are quite incompatible with Le Corbusier’s desires.

Extract from Le Corbusier, Oeuvre complète, volume 6, 1952-1957