More than 20 years ago, we spoke to residents of the legendary L’Unité d’Habitation housing complex about how Corbu’s first ...

He is the best known of a cohort of African architects whose ideas are at the profession’s cutting edge. In particular, they ...

Le Corbusier made another plan for Paris ... Corbu called the building a “Radiant City,” its garden “a landscape worthy of Homer.” It had its faults. The corridors were bare and forbidding ...

His dystopian 1999 novel, Bright Moonlight Plan, followed an architect’s futile struggle to build an ideal new town, taking inspiration from Le Corbusier’s tyrannical Radiant City plan (which ...

One of its pioneers was Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, who was commissioned to build a large residential complex in Marseille. Between 1947 and 1952, he built Cite Radieuse (radiant city), a ...

Le Corbusier's concept of the Radiant City, for instance, shares parallels with transit-oriented developments in cities like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Taipei. As we examine the development ...

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 ...

First it was couture house Chanel putting Marseille on the fashion map when it brought a major summer show to the city’s Radiant City ... designed by architect Le Corbusier.