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Article: Le Corbusier: A Life.(Books)(Book review)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 17, 2008
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Byline: John Kehe
a*Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place
to sleep.a* - Le Corbusier
Who was Le Corbusier? Was he the father of modernist architecture - or the apostle of cold, concrete brutalism? Was he a prolific artist, visionary, and polemicist - or an autodidactic blowhard?
Did he spawn new generations of enlightened architects - or scores of clueless copycats responsible for dull, fortress-like apartment and office complexes scattered across the globe?
a*Until now,a* writes Nicholas Fox Weber, author of Le Corbusier: A Life, a*there has been no ...