Originally published on 6sqft as "Towers in the Park: Le Corbusier's Influence in NYC," this article takes a look at three examples where Le Corbusier's "Radiant City" ideals were transplanted to ...

When Le Corbusier first published his unrealized urban masterplan Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City) in 1933, Le Corbusier envisioned the future city to contain prefabricated and identical high ...

Le Corbusier never got to destroy Stockholm, but architects inspired by his doctrines have gone a fair way toward doing so. As the blurb to the 1964 edition of The Radiant City prophetically puts it, ...

In interwar projects such as the Radiant City, Le Corbusier presented a future free from pollution, crime, traffic and free from the past. The past, for Le Corbusier, was something to be razed ...

More than 20 years ago, we spoke to residents of the legendary L’Unité d’Habitation housing complex about how Corbu’s first large-scale project still meets his original vision of a self-contained ...

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 ...

Architect Le Corbusier’s real service to modern architecture has been as philosopher and phrasemaker. Though the great expanses of glass that he favors may occasionally turn his rooms into ...

Attached to the outmoded ideals of Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City and Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, they are creating a future wilderness of standardized, monotonous never-never lands.

While most of the important buildings in Marseille are of the ornate and religious sort, you can also get an intimate tour of Le Corbusier’s vision of urban utopia, L’Unité d’Habitation. L ...