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This is so true. What a visionary. Paris would be a totally different beast if it was not for him. This makes you regret that there were no such visionary (on a
by Aissen 11y ago
This is so true. What a visionary. Paris would be a totally different beast if it was not for him. This makes you regret that there were no such visionary (on a similar scale) in the twentieth century.
- benpbenp 11y agoUgh, regarding the lack of such a twentieth century visionary, look up Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin for an idea of what such a thing might have looked like!
- agumonkey 11y agoThe problem with LeCorbusier era (IMO) is that few people may understand what he was doing, and large scale project and industries would have led to yet another clusterfuck. Also his big plan, like many utopic and euphoric ideas of this era are only good on paper or as set for SF movies (lookup where total recall was filmed)
- oh_sigh 11y agoLook at Corbusiers own work. It was pure shit. It doesn't matter if you had 100% sign on from every industry. Garbage in, garbage out.
- trgn 11y agoLe Corbusier indeed built shit after he became an ideologue first, and an architect second. Before that, his family residences were quite appealing though. But those were so bourgeois, the horror.
- js2 11y agoOscar Niemeyer? Frederick Law Olmsted?
- zb 11y agoAlbert Speer?
- msellout 11y agoCharles Bulfinch for Boston.
- yborg 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Burnham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Burnham
- js2 11y agoI highly recommend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_White_City https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_White_City
- JBReefer 11y agoNew York had Robert Moses, who fucked the city up so badly that the subway carries half the people it once did, and the population has only just reached the pre-Moses highs. Not all grand visions are for the best.
- contingencies 11y agoManhattan owes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Downing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Downing
- smooveysmoove 11y agoRobert Moses? Maybe not with the same aesthetic results but for better or worse NY (and by influence much of the urban us) would be very different without him
- Outdoorsman 11y agoThe work of Walter Burley Griffin in laying out the Australian capital city of Canberra deserves a mention...certainly a 20th century effort... I backpacked Australia for 6 months back in 1985 and saw his work first-hand...though I'm in no way an urban planner, or civil engineer I had no trouble appreciating the influence of his methodology and planning...beautiful layout... Beautiful photos of Canberra from Mt. Ainslie here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra#/media/File:Canberra_viewed_from_Mount_Ainslie.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra#/media/File:Canberra_...
- cm2187 11y agoI would like to agree. But unfortunately architects followed the same path as painters. Architects until the XIX were concerned about making things beautiful, carefully respecting ratios, etc. Modern architects have no such concern and now are trying to make things original, even if it means people must live in a world of raw concrete. Millions of tourists travel to see Paris. No such enthusiasm to visit modern cities. I would think twice before letting a modern architect wipe out a whole city.