The buildings are nice, but the urban design is absolutely awful. Saw an exhibit about him in NYC, I think at MOMA, a few years back, and it was all these monum

The buildings are nice, but the urban design is absolutely awful. Saw an exhibit about him in NYC, I think at MOMA, a few years back, and it was all these monumental buildings separated by gigantic plots of land with multi-level highways between them, absolute madness, totally anti-human. The exhibit I saw included models related related to Plan Voisin [1]. > If you take his idea of raising buildings on pilotis to allow the garden to extend beneath the residence, this is obvious nonsense because you can’t have a garden without rainfall and sunlight. I feel like this is textbook Corbusier. He designed for buildings and cities that looked beautiful from the scale of the architect, standing miles above them looking down. Actual humans on a human scale do not want cities like this. To be fair to him, I believe he was reacting to the dense cities of the time which were centers of disease and destitution, filled with pollution and sewage. Cities now are much cleaner and more livable, especially those that DON'T follow his model of an ideal city. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Voisin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Voisin