The motor car has completely overturned our old ideas of town planning,' wrote Le Corbusier in 1924, in Towards an Architecture. The Swiss architect was one of the first to directly link the ...

More than 20 years ago, we spoke to residents of the legendary L’Unité d’Habitation housing complex about how Corbu’s first ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nargess Banks covers the arts, with a focus on design and lifestyle. “The motor car has completely overturned our old ideas ...

We’re advancing constantly.” The advance guard! The avant-garde! The lean and free-wheeling approach to life and art that ...

Instead of using cars to unshackle people from the city, Le Corbusier wanted to re-imagine "antiquated" urban centers in a way that suited and accommodated the automobile.

And the car is the only way to get around ... followed the planning ideas of the Functional City together with Le Corbusier’s vision of towers in a park—and his vision of what had to be ...

Under Le Corbusier’s ‘Plan Voisin,’ the disease-plagued Marais would have been replaced by a gridded phalanx of 18 glass towers—both stunning and terrifying.

By 1931, Villa Savoye – designed by Swiss-born architect and designer Le Corbusier – was complete. Located on the outskirts of Paris, the stilted structure featured a curved ground floor level, ...

In 1923, Le Corbusier was only 36 years old, but he already had a number of buildings to his name, including the Atelier Ozenfant.Although he was particularly interested in workers' housing, his ...

The dishevelled space is perhaps not what might be expected of Le Corbusier, as he called himself — a pioneer of modern architecture, with its pristine geometric forms and egalitarian functionalism.

Le Corbusier has become a chic address for architects ... Guerre traffic roundabout Don’t miss the surreal spectacle of cars circling this enormous bronze thumb, sculpted by the artist known ...