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A Corbu thread on Freerepublic? What is the world coming too.
“Fascist architect” ?
The most important thing to remember from Corbu’s plan for Paris, and the whole philosophy of modernism in general, is a glaring dichotomy. We have a top-down imposition a finite, elitist conception of “the good” vs the complex, spontaneous motivations of infinite agents. Jane Jacobs has the best dressing down of modernist planning that’s ever been written. Only too bad for us: No one with her ability has offered a similar critique of Agenda 21, New Urbanism and other top-down utopias.
She praises Saul Alinsky in one of her footnotes in Death and Life of Great American Cities. However, it was published in 1961 when Alinsky was just organizing poor neighborhoods against slum clearing initiatives.
This is great article. The good thing about Corbu is his clarity. Make no mistake, this is exactly what every leftist thinks, but they rarely say it so clearly.
Whether Corbusier was a left totalitarian or right totalitarian is less important than that he was an ideologue.
I hate it when people try to associate all the horrible people with the political side they disagree with.
Conservatives try to disassociate themselves from Hitler by shouting NAZI = National Socialist, but Hitler's economic policies were the least of his horrible crimes.
Totalitarians are totalitarians. They put on rightwing or leftwing clothing as it suits their purposes. Putin is putting on rightwing clothing right now, where as his forefathers (Stalin, Lenin, etc.) put on leftwing clothing.
The Cult of LeTrump is coming.
Ironic that they are both architects/builders.
If you like Fascistic corporate/government cronyism now, you will love it under Trump.
Adolf Schickelgruber ( not PC to say the H word, so I’ll use his real name ) built the Autobahn. Trump will build the Wall.
Both just wanted to make their country great again.
Ted's best observation, in all this (and it's worth searching through Google Earth or just looking over some search results of the examples of his work, with eyes that actually do "see") touches upon the man's autism.
It's his modern worshipers who demonstrate "real mental illness."
This is an important piece. Le Corbusier represents the raw and unvarnished physical manifestation of the left’s totalitarian desire to “transform” the “disorder” of a free society into the “rational” world of their pinhead dreams. The result in the United States was what came to be known as “the projects”, places that gave rise to a level of human depravity, suffering and death previously unknown in our history. This is all painfully obvious for those who care to look, but the fact that they are having a hagiographic “exhibition” to celebrate this guy’s “contributions” to the world ought to be a scandal.
His style is dubbed as Brutalism. He left a few brutal buildings around the Greater Boston area.
I like modernism, dada, surrealism.
Simple lines, whimsy and the imagination all evoke something profound in me.
Life just flows and there is often no central or unitive point to it.
We live it as we dream it and we are the author of its meaning and the master of our own destiny.