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Article: Le Corbusier's change of art The architect was about much more than high-rises
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- February 8, 2009
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Just bulldoze the Right Bank, was Le Corbusier's typically
audacious advice on how to tackle the slum squalor of Twenties
Paris. Demolish half the city and replace it with a grid of 60-
storey tower-blocks, he thought. This potty proposal went mercifully
unheeded by the Parisian planners, but - through his 75 buildings
worldwide that were realised, and through the ideas he set forth in
1923's modernist manifesto Toward an Architecture - Le Corbusier is
widely considered the most important architect of the 20th century.
Born in a small, Swiss, watchmaking town in 1887, Le Corbusier
(ne Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) was dismayed at the overcrowding and
urban sprawl he encountered on moving to ...