{"id":333746,"date":"2017-11-06T06:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/le-corbusier-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T06:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:23:26","slug":"le-corbusier-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/le-corbusier-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Corbusier – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some time ago, I was asked to review a vast biography of Bertolt Brecht, the German playwright and poet, by an admirer of his work. It is seldom that one reads hundreds of pages about someone without coming across a single instance of a decent, kind, or selfless act, but so it was with Brecht. He couldn\u2019t even be bothered to wash for the convenience of others.<\/p>\n

The French fascist architect Charles-\u00c9douard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, was another of this charmless ilk, though cleaner than Brecht (a Marxist, the latter\u2019s decision not to wash was his tribute, albeit not a very flattering one, to the proletariat). Jeanneret\u2019s inhumanity, his rage against humans, is evident in his architecture and in his writings. He felt the level of affection and concern for them that most people feel for cockroaches.<\/p>\n

Like Hitler, Jeanneret wanted to be an artist, and, as with Hitler, the world would have been a better place if he had achieved his ambition. Had he been merely an artist, one could have avoided his productions if one so wished; but the buildings that he and his myriad acolytes have built unavoidably scour the retina of the viewer and cause a decline in the pleasure of his existence.<\/p>\n

One of Jeanneret\u2019s buildings can devastate a landscape or destroy an ancient townscape once and for all, with a finality that is quite
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\n<\/span>without appeal; as for his city planning, it was of a childish inhumanity and rank amateurism that would have been mildly amusing had it remained purely theoretical and had no one taken it seriously.<\/p>\n

A book has just been published\u2014Le Corbusier: The Dishonest Architect<\/em><\/a>, by Malcolm Millais\u2014that reads like the indictment of a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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