http://www.yodaiken.com/2006/12/elegance-shmelagance-the-le-corbusier-fallacy-again/ Systems software technology and business Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:24:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.yodaiken.com/2006/12/elegance-shmelagance-the-le-corbusier-fallacy-again/comment-page-1/#comment-93 OS design at keeping simple Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:57:19 +0000 http://yodaiken.com/?p=61#comment-93 [...] [cite] [...] [...] [cite] [...]

]]> http://www.yodaiken.com/2006/12/elegance-shmelagance-the-le-corbusier-fallacy-again/comment-page-1/#comment-12 yodaiken Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:49:21 +0000 http://yodaiken.com/?p=61#comment-12 Well, the Plan Voisin was his, no? The idea of a city geometrically laid out, with a sterile business center, and grand highways is Le Corbusier as`well. And can't we blame him somewhat for all the Pruitt-Igoes and Cabrini-Greens? But maybe I'm being unfair. Well, the Plan Voisin was his, no? The idea of a city geometrically laid out, with a sterile business center, and grand highways is Le Corbusier as`well. And can’t we blame him somewhat for all the Pruitt-Igoes and Cabrini-Greens? But maybe I’m being unfair.

]]> http://www.yodaiken.com/2006/12/elegance-shmelagance-the-le-corbusier-fallacy-again/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Athel Cornish-Bowden Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:32:49 +0000 http://yodaiken.com/?p=61#comment-11 I wonder whether in your reference to the Le Corbusier fallacy you are criticizing Le Corbusier's own ideas or the ideas of architects who tried to imitate him without understanding what he was trying to do. As it happens I live less than five minutes walk away from one of his buildings (La Cité Radieuse in Marseilles) and it is simply absurd to describe it as a "high rise slum that look striking from the highway but that [is] uninhabitable". It does indeed look striking from the highway, but it is also thoroughly inhabitable. Most of the people who live there love it and live in it for years. I wonder whether in your reference to the Le Corbusier fallacy you are criticizing Le Corbusier’s own ideas or the ideas of architects who tried to imitate him without understanding what he was trying to do. As it happens I live less than five minutes walk away from one of his buildings (La Cité Radieuse in Marseilles) and it is simply absurd to describe it as a “high rise slum that look striking from the highway but that [is] uninhabitable”. It does indeed look striking from the highway, but it is also thoroughly inhabitable. Most of the people who live there love it and live in it for years.

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