Le Corbusier’s incoherent 1923 manifesto was indispensable to the ascendency of an ideology that blights cities worldwide, still propagating 100 years later
As a child I was moved from a garden of Eden, the jungle rainforests of Jamaica W.I., to a concrete jungle in Jamaica, Queens. I lived for a time in the then largest co-op in the world modelled on the Ville Radieuse by Corbusier’s most prolific protégé, Herman Jessor.
These places are a concentration camp, a hellscape. People are never alone and always afraid. You palpably feel that whomever designed these places abhor all biological life, us included.
People talk of going back in time to smother baby Hitler in his crib -- they should make a trip to Le Corbusier's childhood bedside as well.
A thorough going condemnation. Bravo.
As a child I was moved from a garden of Eden, the jungle rainforests of Jamaica W.I., to a concrete jungle in Jamaica, Queens. I lived for a time in the then largest co-op in the world modelled on the Ville Radieuse by Corbusier’s most prolific protégé, Herman Jessor.
These places are a concentration camp, a hellscape. People are never alone and always afraid. You palpably feel that whomever designed these places abhor all biological life, us included.
Folks ask me why I hate Modernism so much.
Well, it hated me first.
all of this can be applied to London, sadly.
Yeah so few cities have avoided it, with some notable exceptions like Paris (tour Montparnasse, centre Pompidou, la défense notwithstanding)