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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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I am reminded of Le Corbusier's declaration as I sit in The View, the revolving restaurant atop the Marriot Marquis hotel in New York's Times Square.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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It is incredible today to see Le Corbusier's singleness of purpose throughout these years: however small a project, however far removed it may have appeared from what he considered to be his central mission, there was hardly a line drawn in his office which did not elaborate upon that mission.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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As the cracks and fissures in Le Corbusier's synthesis are observed, a third set of architectural motifs emerges as the gross structural constituents (equivalent of the linguistic sign) of architectural representation.
This book is a unique analysis and explanation of Le Corbusier's early education, his travels in Europe and the East, his buildings and his Purist paintings.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Le Corbusier's City of To-morrow) - a reaction against the baroque city which simply pierced the existing medieval fabric - as well as the ideal renaissance city, composed of binary opposites, could only be realised in America.
One of Le Corbusier's crowning works, it is a place of silence, peace and inner joy.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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They met intellectually first through more than 650 photos that Lucien Herv took in one single day in 1949 of Le Corbusier's ground-breaking residential unit then under construction in Marseilles.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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One of the important monuments of twentieth century modernism, Le Corbusier's 1951 plan of Chandigarh, the capital of the province of Punjab in India, has received its share of criticism for lacking a viable urban scale.
Or by Le Corbusier's 1925 Voisin Plan for Paris: the ancient city razed, in its place "la ville radieuse" -- tall towers standing free on green lawns with no streets, traffic whizzing by on perimeter highways.
At the Paris exhibition the hatred for Le Corbusier's pavilion was passionate and vitriolic, why he agreed to participate in the first place is difficult to understand as the authorities did everything possible to sabotage his efforts.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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While the first of these works clearly derived from Le Corbusier's Roq et Rob terrace housing of 1949, the second was rendered as an introspective seven story cube protected by perforated screen walls from the chaotic metropolis surrounding it on every side.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The winning design for this parliament by a group of Croatian architects was highly influenced by Le Corbusier's League of Nations, but not by the Palace of Soviets.
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