Le Corbusier, "A Contemporary City" from "The City of Tomorrow and its Planning" Summary

Reblogged from Kris Hartley:

A seminal figure in the International Style of architecture and the Modernist movement, Le Corbusier was known for his cubist-minimalist designs and grandiose, if impractical, urban planning proposals. However, elements of his heterodox megastructuralist planning philosophy have informed normative concepts that prevail unquestioned (e.g. the “skyscraper in the park” and housing block architecture), while his institutionalist structural rigidity has been a lightning rod for criticism from Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Peter Hall, scorned for its anti-human detachment.

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