Poor Corbusier, getting blamed for the architectural errors of Mies van der Rohe's sadly untalented copy cats, pseudo-intellectual ideologues, and greedy develo

Poor Corbusier, getting blamed for the architectural errors of Mies van der Rohe's sadly untalented copy cats, pseudo-intellectual ideologues, and greedy developers. For the record, Corbusier's Ville Radieuse (Radiant City) predates the Cold War by a rather hot World War II (1930). Interestingly enough, it was a very Googly impulse -- "organize all the world's" bipeds -- that motivated the relatively young control freak aka architect. After WWII, Corbu mellowed. And his collective residential structures, Unité d'habitation, were the result of his synthesis of a generative measuring system and modularity. OP and fellow SREs have quite a lot to learn from the mature thoughts of Le Corbusier. Over here in America, we had our own native genius, Frank Lloyd Wright, who devised his vision of an urbanism for a democracy - The Broadacre City: https://franklloydwright.org/revisiting-frank-lloyd-wrights-vision-broadacre-city/ https://franklloydwright.org/revisiting-frank-lloyd-wrights-... But of course, the "high modernism" clique (ran by the moneyed set of East Coast (think MoMA), and the "ex-Nazi", Phillip Johnson) that did everything to marginalize Wright. And it was this clique, having imported wholesale (ironically) the leftist architects of Europe escaping Fascism, that gifted us with "high modernism" dystopia. If you want to learn about modern architecture, I recommend Ken Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History. He was one of the very few actual teachers I had in architectural school worthy of the designation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Frampton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Frampton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70140.Modern_Architecture https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70140.Modern_Architectur... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Johnson#Controversy_over_Nazi_activities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Johnson#Controversy_ove... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe (His own works were exquisite gems.)