Save this picture! Two figures from The Radiant City that display Le Corbusier’s worldview: he strongly opposes commercial household decorations.. Image Courtesy of Le Corbusier,1964 Today ...

Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City) is an unrealized urban masterplan by Le Corbusier, first presented in 1924 and published in a book of the same name in 1933. Designed to contain effective means ...

There is to be no escape from Le Corbusier’s prescriptions. “The only possible road is that of enthusiasm . . . the mobilization of enthusiasm, that electric power source of the human factory.” In his ...

The Master Plan of the Radiant City. Image Courtesy of LE CORBUSIER FOUNDATION Throughout history, religious reformers and visionary starchitects have attempted to envision the future of our ...

Le Corbusier, La Ville Radieuse. The Radiant City Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known professionally as Le Corbusier, wasn’t a fan of New York. “Even before taking his ...

a very distant avatar of the Radiant City from Le Corbusier’s past, an incipient manifestation of the principles of ecological urbanism as we are beginning to recognize it today. And so ...

the radiant city bristles with towering high rises that, by housing the entire population, free the ground for green spaces. “Imagine all this junk,” Le Corbusier boasted, “which till now ...

Le Corbusier, born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret ... The most famous example was La Cite Radieuse (Radiant City) in Marseille, which is often credited for inspiring the Brutalist style of architecture ...