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Le Corbusier's mass production housing experiment has been considered as one of the important theories in modern housing. However, studies focusing on its whole context and meanings in detail are very limited. With this background, the goal of this research is to interpret implicit meanings in his experimental cases of mass production housing, included in 「Vers une architecture」, focusing on specifically his arguments and basis of assertion. There are three steps. First, finding major ideas and background logic in the mass production housing theory. Second, analyzing each cases’ characteristics. Finally, interpreting his intention of the mass production housing experiment from classifying the cases by features and keywords. Through analysis, the meanings of the ‘standard’ and the ‘machine à habiter’ appeared. Also, the relation between the mass production and those two concepts showed up. His concept of mass production housing is a way to approach to the perfection of house which is the ultimate goal. The concept of ‘machine à habiter’ is a logical basis in order to assert the industrialization of construction and the necessity for the quality improvement of housing. Especially, that means it is his social vision that any social class of people can have the same human living conditions by applicating the mass production housing theory.