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Originally Posted by 10023
I like some of Le Corbusier's furniture, but he was the embodiment of an architect that designed as an aesthetic exercise without any thought to the human side. We can only thank God that his visions for Paris were never realized.
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Naw, that's Walter Gropius. The Radiant City was actually a humanitarian effort; the slums of Paris presented horrible living conditions. They were unsanitary, dark, crime ridden areas that needed to house even
more people and which had virtually
no open space. Corbusier's solution was to replace that urban condition with a park, and to place within that park towers whose plans maximized the permutation of light and air. The Radiant City was never built, but his similar Unite d'Habitation projects
were built and have a notable reputation for incredibly satisfied tenants.
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Many ideas he put forth in the Radiant City and then reused in later projects were incredibly successful. Of course, the Radiant City also failed on many levels, but it was not because Corbusier designed machine architecture.