Having grown up in Chandigarh, the Le Corbusier planned city, my thoughts are:

1. Excellent grid based city design and making each small suburb (called sectors) fairly self sufficient and mixed use was brilliant. The city was so easy to navigate with lots of green spaces everywhere
2. Paint the damn concrete. Over time it just looks and feels cold and dirty. You need lots of greenery to offset the coldness of the concrete and even then when you’re inside it feels like a villain’s lair. I appreciate his practical open plan designs though.

Having that personal connection I’ve always had mixed feelings about him! But the fact that I got to grow up in an orderly, well planned and well designed city (still a rarity in India) is all thanks to him!

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Glad to see a critical vision on Le Corbusier’s legacy in the comments

Le Corbusier is the biggest "The Emperor Has No Clothes" figure in architectural history. He designed a cold world of uniformity, stripping away any kind of detail and sensitivity. He traveled across Europe only to buy into the mathematical rules of proportion, which he strictly imposed on every composition. His works may seem visionary, but his five points were actually stolen from previous architects, as seen with Eileen Gray—whom he wronged so badly that she retired.

He approached urban planning as if it were a god’s game, experimenting with the lives of thousands of people as if their way of living didn’t matter. His best works are actually those related to religious themes—structured by strict rules of monotony. The city of Chandigarh is the perfect example of the horrible world we could have lived in if urban planning had relied on him.

Finally, yes, he did influence much of modern architecture, but not for the better. Brutalist neighborhoods popped up in our cities, with his pilotis filled with piss and drug addicts. Every architecture school in the world brainwashes students until they admit he was a genius—otherwise, they will never be seen as the snob they aspire to be.

In reality, he lacked the ability to understand human relationships and behavior. He tried to "cleanse" citizens’ lives as if they were sick, when, in fact, he was the one incapable of comprehending the tiny, useless things that make our lives beautiful.

7:20 - - Eileen Gray - - self-taught architect + interior designer

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No video of the old crow (whose work I have some like for) should fail to mention that he supported both Mussolini and Hitler. His vision of architecture and planning was very related to his agreement with fascism: a belief that clean order could prevail over the "messiness" of humanity. He had a big impact on the world because local tyrants like Robert Moses could point to him and call their bulldozing "progress". Just C- historical assessment here, sorry. Great comment @sidoulos

A arquitetura clássica tem beleza. O modernismo é o oposto de beleza.

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A frase 'a house is a machine to live in' é uma atrocidade.

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A man with a hatred of the past and a desire to eradicate historical heritage from previous centuries. Truly a monster wishing to destroy centuries old urban centers embodying the work of thousands of previous architects, artisans and craftsmen. Someone how thought himself a genius.
He not only drew up le the Plan Voisin to demolish most of historical Paris, he also drew up a similar plan for the Belgian city of Antwerp in the same manner. Raise and tear down the entire medieval/Renaissance city of Antwerp, 14th century cathedral included.
There was something destructive and cold about an architect with such ideas on their mind.

I never understood why some dislike Le Corbusier.
He is the reason many people have roofs over their head today
Building more efficiently and cheaper is big thing! Specially during wartime.

Traditional architecture can't answer the needs of our society anymore. We needed new ways to do things and he found those ways.


Natural sunlight
Natural ventilation
Almost perfect Geometry and proportions
He had it all

There's so much I can write about him but I'm short on time
Maybe I will come back and edit this

I appreciate his works but I prefeer others Architects like Mis Van Der Roe, Frank Loyd Wright,  Renzo Piano and others

Demoloshing old neighborhoods in Paris in order to build brutalist blocks sounds like the stupidest idea possible