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Article: The Lay of the Landscape.(International Edition; THE ARTS)(Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture art exhibition)
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- Newsweek International
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- March 2, 2009
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Byline: Christopher Werth
Le Corbusier was a better architect than urban planner. Yet his blueprint for city life still reigns.
In a short film that opens the new exhibit "Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture" at the Barbican Centre in London, the dapper, bespectacled Swiss-born architect stands before a grand plan of Paris and draws a thick black line across the map, blocking out a vast, rectangular swath of the city. His "Plan Voisin"--conceived with the belief that modern man required modern cities in which to live--involved razing part of the capital's Right Bank to make way for nearly 20 high-rise residential towers neatly arranged on an expansive ...