Despot-ictecture
It’s Le Corbusier’s fault that architecture has tended towards the soulless and the inhuman, concrete structures that turn the social landscape into a banal wasteland, says Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal:. Whatever the shortcomings of Le Corbusier’s ideas made manifest, Dalrymple is right to point out that is more often the students of the master who do the most harm:
“By their very presence, the raw-concrete-clad rectangular towers that obsessed him canceled out centuries of architecture. Hardly any town or city in Britain (to take just one nation) has not had its composition wrecked by architects and planners inspired by his ideas.”
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