Opinion of Le Corbusier

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

The modernist architect and urban planner.

Massive HP.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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[Tetro Kornbluth]

A mistake

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I mean, this may well be the funniest thing ever:



As you can see if you look closely enough, this was Le Corbusier's plan for central Paris. I.e. he proposed knocking down central Paris and replacing it with a version of Chicago even sh!ttier than the original.

[Simfan34]

The fact that Le Corbusier had as much effect on urban planning as he did was a tragedy for us all. The man who proposed the Plan Voisin deserved to be thrown in prison for it, not followed.

[Linus Van Pelt]

As architect, I'd give him an FF, which isn't to say it's exactly my favorite style.

As urban planner, obviously, HP.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

As architect, I'd give him an FF, which isn't to say it's exactly my favorite style.

As urban planner, obviously, HP.

One reason why he was such a spectacularly awful urban planner (and this is also true of his follwers) is that he didn't really recognise a distinction between those two roles.

[traininthedistance]

I will admit that I like Ronchamp and maybe a couple other isolated buildings of his.

That doesn't make up for the Plan Voisin (and his planning thought in general), one of the twentieth century's most hilariously awful– and horrifyingly influential– mistakes. 

HP of course.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

The more I read about why Le Corbusier thought the Plan Voisin was a good idea, the more he seems like a Star Trek mirror universe version of Robert Moses, which is to say, even more despicable.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I will admit that I like Ronchamp and maybe a couple other isolated buildings of his.

That doesn't make up for the Plan Voisin (and his planning thought in general), one of the twentieth century's most hilariously awful– and horrifyingly influential– mistakes. 

HP of course.

Yeah, I love the Ronchamp chapel and wish I could say that it makes up for the other stuff, but it really can't.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I mean, this may well be the funniest thing ever:



As you can see if you look closely enough, this was Le Corbusier's plan for central Paris. I.e. he proposed knocking down central Paris and replacing it with a version of Chicago even sh!ttier than the original.

Oh my God.

[afleitch]

Mixed.

He could design a good house, but not a good home. The bigger the project, the less impressive his execution of his aesthetic. His early pre-war designs are exceptionally good however.

[Storebought]

Le Corbusier's small scale "one-off" works are actually kind of charming, a lot more so than those from the rest of the mid-century modernists, but his "master planned communities" are uniformly lamentable.

But I will concede that the unique atrociousness of his school of architecture is a reflection of the racism and social Darwinism of American and British planners "inspired" by Le Corbusier in the 1930s. They transformed his vision of "towers in the park" -- a concept that works beautifully in Singapore -- into skyscraper prisons for poor and colored people. Even worse in the US, our actual cities were demolished to make space for them, and the highways built to circumvent them.

[ZuWo]

Not a fan but I'm forced to deal with him on a daily basis.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Not a fan but I'm forced to deal with him on a daily basis.

that ...can't be real. I know it is, but it just can't be.

[windjammer]

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[Ban my account ffs!]

Between the two, LeCorbusier and Robert Moses, NYC could've been thoroughly destroyed, saving the rest of us.

[checkers]

Plan Voisin is jaw-dropping (not in a good way), and as Madeline said, the descriptions of why he built it that way makes it all the more horrific. I've heard that his later designs for Chandigarh aren't so bad, and the Unité d'Habitation is more ... inhabitable than it looks, but yeah. Hilarious/horrible Planner.

[Gustaf]

A friend of mine is a big fan so I've even visited an exhibition with some of his art and stuff. But personally I echo the comments here.