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It has actually been put into use globally, though rarely to this scale. Highrise apartment complexes & public housing apartments are certainly an influence of his urban design. Interestingly, his ideas were implemented on a smaller scalle in Paris... not in the city centre, but as public housing complexes in the outer suburbs. These places today are infamous for antisocial behavior, social issues, & crime.
@@jonathantan2469 The Bijlmer in the Netherlands (mentioned in this video) is also notorious for the same problems. Seems while the ideas are kinda cool on a surface level idea, they are absolutely terrible for actual human beings. I personally think that the obsession with 'order' removes the natural flow of 'chaos' that is inherent in our hearts. You cannot order the human spirit without losing it in the process hence some natural disorganisation needs to remain to provide space for the soul to breath.
As an architecture student, we studied Le Corbusier and his modernism as a general overview, not much critique was offered. A lot of architecture teaching seems to fail to imagine the lived experience of normal people. Architects have a terrible habit of isolating themselves from the realities of living. Ironically it creates awful architecture when this happens.
Sad. I would like to see this, I hate what kind of architecture is built nowadays. Same crazy density and low amount of green zones as in 1800s are usual. Really don't like cities like Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Vienna.
@@ligametis Totally agree. I don't know about Copenhagen and Vienna, but Amsterdam sucks badly. Everything is way too crowded, this dense "mixed-use" architecture makes you constantly overstimulated and worried if someone won't ride their bike right into you. It's too small, too dense and too loud. If I wanted to live in a bazaar, I'd move to one.
Le Corbusier really is the supervillain of architecture. You get the feeling all his plans were designed specifically to look cool when looking down on tiny models of them and not to actually be nice to live in.
@wrzesienkuba of course it was irony, but those channels are frequently ignoring that people have preferences and many love their cars. Sometimes it is even their favourite possession
He designed every apartment with huge openable windows, rooftop gardens or access to balconies. Sounds pretty humane to me. Before he went of the rails batshit crazy with perfecting 'the living machine' he revolutionized living for the working class.
@@merileopardisaksassa7030 Soviet commies block revolutionised affordable houses for the working class. A skyscraper is expensive as fuck to build and rent, no worker would be able to afford those.
I once had a class in my university on the history of art and architecture from the Parthenon to the present, and I distinctly remember the day we talked about Le Corbusier. There was such an overwhelmingly negative response from almost all the students. It's rare that someone can still garner as much hatred 100 years after their death.
Not all he did was bad. He also contributed a lot to architecture. His five points of new architecture are still fundamental to modern buildings, things that we now give for granted, such as the importance of my having supporting walls to increase the sense of space and design freedom, the free design of façades and the large windows
Yes. It’s remarkable how his design for his own house was nothing like any of these horrible huge buildings: an airy, big-windowed suburban home in a private garden.
As a Hongkonger myself I finally understood why does Le Corbusier’s plan rang so many bells in my head. That’s because Hong Kong follows a lot of Le Corbusier’s planning principles for many New Towns that are built after the 70s. All these skyscrapers lining up in a near grid like manner are housed with people, and with parks, malls and transit hubs near close proximity. Everything is walkable and conviennent, and most of the time you can get by without a car, but it’s also soul crushingly dull and suffocating because all you see are just the top of the buildings and not a vast open sky.
Asian cities are much more likely to have been influenced by modernism or international style, which was influenced a lot by Japan and pre-dated Le Corbusier but influenced him a lot.
This is wild to read as a suburbian, I couldn’t care less if I can see the open sky when everything else around me is damaged pavement, empty parking lots, and abandoned-damaged buildings.
If Le Corbusier has million haters, then I'm one of them. If Le Corbusier has one hater, then I'm THAT ONE. If Le Corbusier has no haters, that means I'm dead.
Actually no. His whole point was to be more humane than the actual living conditions of his time. Every single one of his actual real-life buildings had running water for washing hands, made cleaning for hygiene incomprehensibly easy, had a terrace or balcony, was modular to give people more living space when not using their beds and had huge windows. One of his mottos was 'Humans wither away without access to fresh air, light and exercise'. He usually designed his apartments & houses to be affordable for poor to working class citizens. Imagine being stuck in a tiny, unclean hovel with fungi growing in the ceiling & brick cracks without running water, having one, maybe two rooms for your whole family, and possibly sleeping in shifts with another family. He was a revolutionary and we own him a lot for improving standards of living in regards to hygiene and quality of life. He got too obsessed with his principles and lost all sense of what humans need socially and mentally and culturally, but his intentions were more than comandable. Seach for floorplans and pictures of his buildings in the Weissenhof Siedlung in Stuttgart! In regards to the Nazi allegations: it's complicated. He might have been an authoritarian but on the left, not the right. He's more of a cimunist than a nazi. He was actually interogated by them several times, threatened and the previously mentioned Weissenhof Siedlung was shut down, almost destroyed, due to accusations of 'destroying cultural landscapes by making arabic white buildings'.
But back then in the 1920s, there was little appreciation for buildings which were mostly aging structures built in the 1800s, and used by the lower classes at that time. In hindsight, it was a good thing his grand plan for Paris did not get off the drawing board.
I'm from India and visited Chadigarh enough times to comment on it. It is India's first planned city designed exclusively by Corbusier. It has a grid layout and is possibly the worst city in India for pedestrians. It's grid layout made distances long forcing almost everyone to have a car. Traffic is getting worse every year because population is growing and they need cars to move around.
The very same thing can be said about Brasília. Probably it is Brazil's least walkable city. There isn't much traffic there, though, as the highways are ridiculously large.
@A Z I don’t get why every discussion about India turns towards poverty. Maybe you should visit Chandigarh, it’s one of the richest cities of India. For every one good grid city there are 100 more which are the worst.
@A Z Grid cities are some of the worst cities in terms of walkability and traffic. It's got nothing to do with economics and everything to do with fundamental design.
The more I see master plans with order and symmetry, the more I think that OCD plays a big role. The "feeling" comes first (the orderly streets and buildings), then the justification ("This is the most efficient way, the most futuristic thing, etc...").
The main tenets of authoritarian architecture are symmetry, monumentality, and modernism without a care for "degenerate" ornamentations. Hitler's planned Volkshalle comes to mind
If it makes you feel any better, most new and young architects hate LeCorbusier. He was an egomaniacal loser. He was also not a very good person. He would steal credit for work, worked with fascists because all he cared about was his own work being done, and on one infamous instance, he was so jealous of a design by one of his ex employees, Eileen Gray, that he went and vandalized the house with paint to a point that was irreparable to its original condition. The house still exists, but it does not look how Eileen Gray originally designed it. The only good thing LeCorbusier did was create the concept of the open floor plan, in my humble opinion lol.
Le Corbusier wasn't the first to want to bulldozer the centre of Paris, though. Baron Haussmann preceded him by a century or so. But his designs were made so long ago that most people now consider them tasteful.
Ideologically, Haussmann, Le Corbusier and Soviet urban planning have the same concept - totalitarianism - erasing the past to empower a new world view. Urban planning for controlling the empire age, for controlling the interwar era and for controlling the soviet era. You can argue about advantages, disadvantages and subtleties all day, they all exchanged something good/bad for something else good/bad.
@Mira Moche I also prefer the Haussmann type urban planning, similar to Barcelona's Eixample. But in the same time, the large avenues were made to easily shoot civilians with cannons in case of riots. Good/bad!
@Mira Moche I don't know man, last time I checked the New Reich Chancellary and various buildings in Italy built in the 1930s look by and far better (and more functional) than this weird French dude inspired by modernism, and those things were built under NatSoc/Fascist ideologies.
@Mira Moche haussman may not have been a fascist- but he was authoritarian. many of his changes to Paris were to make it harder for citizens to protest the government
I think a big issue that's overlooked with all these 'futuristic' cities, is that they completely disregard the inter-sub-communities that naturally find their places within grander communities, these cities are all designed with focus on the business and consumerism aspect of society and not the communities within a cities boundaries.
It's deliberate. Communites create self contained system of support, without putting money into the global economy. Carpooling and communal gardening and whatnot. From the perspective of a complete moron who thinks money is good, communities are immoral You gotta break up the possibility for communities to increase the cost of living to keep profits in line with inflation
@@fraziercrawford That's virtually impossible. People will always establish communities. The three despots in history that tried to eradicate any semblance of community were the Nazis, the Stalinists (communists on steroids), and Maoists. And they tried to do so through atrocities.
Idk why but these type of buildings are just the worst place to live in France and maybe Russia. They had been built after WW2 to rebuild cities, to re-inhabit all people but failed. In Netherland, they successfully did it
Seoul looks the way it does for reasons that should be very obvious to anyone. The city was destroyed multiple times in the 20th century. I'm going to be honest with you, the newer buildings in Seoul and the outskirts look a lot nicer than the drab, miserable architecture of Tokyo.
I almost feel bad for these hyper neurotic types that have been assured so many times thru out their lives that their compulsive inflexibility is a positive attribute. All someone had to do was NOT punish them when they expressed themselves and these things wouldn't even happen
What's so beautiful with Belgrade is how you can read all the layers of the city so easily, one can really see in what different time period the city blossomed intertwined with stagnation. It could be one of the most beautiful cities in the world if just all the buildings were washed and some of them restored. All the layers are there, all the time periods are represented.
Funny enough, a professor of mine discussed this topic on Brasilia. A friend of his left anecdote of the living conditions there: the people go to work, and it is always cold. there is no life here. And once the weekend arrives, the streets lie empty, as all jumped on trucks and planes to head back to Rio de Janeiro. Once Monday comes, the streets go full again, but the life is still cold.
Actually living isn't that bad over here. Given that the city started from literally nothing (everything was "finished" in 1960), there were no historical buildings to be built over or near; knowing the exact location of a building is easy (streets don't have names, they follow a numbering order), going to places is easy as well, and the buildings on stilts give the residential areas a pretty cool look imo. Also loads of places good for partying, if that's what your friend likes the most (without the rampant crime and violence as in Rio)
Most people: "Le Corbusier is a bad person because his buildings look ugly. Luckily we didn't go for his vision." Me thinking about all the modern cities with the same glass buildings:"....."
They all look decent to me. Don’t know what’s the gripe with modern buildings when they are perfectly fine. If anything people moved on from “beautiful historic” buildings because they all looked the same for their time as well and frankly I don’t find beauty in many of the old decorated buildings either.
He's literally responsible for these glass buildings too. The International Style comes in part from his work. You can also add Brutalism to his long list of crimes.
@@saosaqii5807 It's horrible and crush the human soul. There is lot of studies about it. Also it's pretty much the mc donalds or zara of building. No local identify (you have the same from Berlin and Cairo to Tokyo) and mediocre.
Modern buildings are still preferable because in most places they aren’t seperated by 3 layers of (up to) 20lane roads surrounded by flat grass fields with no trees.
@@karakarakiri9568 agreed, cultural and certain traditional buildings are nice but just absolutely not the classical and overly decorated with meaningless art kind. Beauty is subjective yes but many classical buildings just ain’t for me. A few here and there amazing. Building too many of them as a common scenery? Equally bad.
I'm glad they kept the old part of Paris in tact. The high rises and modern downtown are several km away which is great for keeping the historic areas looking historic.
@@kal_bewe1837 Like where? There is literally no neighborhood I know of in Paris where most architecture is older than the 1850s... Also there is a great total of two roman buildings (the arenas and the baths which were excavated), and medieval buildings are mostly churches... I wouldn't even be able to name a single "rennaissance" era building in Paris (apart from a bridge), some of them date indeed to the modern era, but more the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, and few of them are residential. Paris like most european cities isn't that old. If you want old cities you should better go to cities which have preserved their medieval center (Carcassone, Bourge, Köln, Dijon and others) or to Italy and the MENA which where a lot more urbanized in earlier times.
@@johnstevenson5084 You have got to be kidding me. How is that a virtue? It would be a dystopian nightmare in the middle of what used to be known as one of the most beautiful cities on Earth.
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The one truly good idea here is green space. Corbusier correctly realized that new materials like reinforced concrete opened up new possibilities. We tried this in the US with housing projects, and most failed spectacularly. However, look at a satellite view of NYC and the housing projects look almost like parks, because of all the green space. We should use this one positive effect of such architecture.
Honestly, I get the association of “towers in the park” with cramped commie blocks, but there really is so much potential for liveable neighborhoods with the green space and towers design
The problem with public social housing projects is if you concentrate a large number of lower income folks together into a compound of high density towers... including people with drug & alcohol issues, delinquents, unemployed, & behavioural problems... you get a compounding effect of social issues & crime in the area. This is also a problem in Europe, and also here in Australia. Subsequent town planning now focuses on smaller lower density developments scattered between suburbs & careful selection of residents to avoid this problem.
@@jonathantan2469Bro I was JUST saying how towers in the park has a connotation of low-income public housing. I’m not saying anything about income brackets here, just that towers in the park would honestly be nice to live in, with 70% green space and walkability. (Also, did you just insinuate that exclusionary suburb planning is a good thing, or am I projecting what I hate onto you for a minor quibble)
Towers in a park areas are not walkable since you spread everything out between huge empty fields of grass with little recreational value. The unnecessary big distances between buildings created by spreading them out between empty fields of grass makes these areas very car dependent
@@_jpgHe became French in 1930. That was before everything happened relating to WWII. Although, he DID collaborate with Pétain’s regime and he did have various links with Fascist and Anti-Semitic organizations.
Le Corbusier is the reason why the general public has disdain for modern architecture. And there’s a good reason for that. An example of trash modernist architecture on a implemented on large scale is in New York City. New York City is just like Paris. Organic growth, walkable, and narrow street meant for pedestrians. Then here comes Robert Moses who was obsessed with cars and segregation. He demolished plenty of historical neighborhoods to pave way for highways cutting in between neighborhoods. He built hideous public housing shaped like crosses, just like Le Corbusier’s designs. To this day, they’re hideous. There are neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn, and especially The Bronx that have to live with the eyesore and negative health effects of highways - also very impractical for us pedestrians.
people like Le Corbusier are the exact reason why architects need to be kept on leash, he could have built that shit anywhere, but he chose the historic center of Paris. one of the quintessential centers for western culture and aesthetics. people like him hate beauty, they hate humanity and this should be recognized in all the things they do and be responded with the utmost disdain and dismissal of their ideas. i am truly glad his ideas didn't get through.
@@shanewalker3273 The first, without a doubt. The second can always be achieved with *remigrating the non-Europeans currently taking up houses everywhere in Europe.*
"one of the quintessential centers for western culture and aesthetics" not it isn't lmao. The entirety of the region Corbusier would destroy was built following an authoritarian mindset to impede roadblocks at to make protestors more vulnerable. Thousands were displaced and most of the poor population was kicked out. It's a trillion times better than Corbusier's quasi-fascist design, but if it simbolizes something, it is how urban planning can be made to gentrify and punish the minorities; don't let the pretty decorations fool you
Went to Architecture school. We learned a LOT about Corbusier in our history courses, and while I think his city plans and many of his macro-scale concepts were flawed and oftentimes problematic, I did learn to appreciate some of his architectural work when it came to living spaces and places of community. While many works are out of date, one would be remiss to discount his contributions to modernism and architecture through designs attempting to reconcile mass housing materials with modern age living requirements (even if not always successful). I’ll recommend Corbu’s Five points of architecture if anyone wants reading, as well as a look into well-executed brutalist buildings. The style is heavy but it shouldn’t need to be overly dark or oppressive. In fact, it can be quite light and airy at times.
Le Corbusier's "cruciform towers in a park" concept was widely adopted by several US cities for their public housing projects (like Cabrini-Green). It revealed some massive problems with the design-- because of the parks and single-use scheme, residents were physically very far from grocery stores, shops, offices, etc, which isolated them and redoubled their poverty. Add in elevator/mechanical mismanagement and you've got a recipe for disaster.
Cities: Skylines may use this model as a DLC with all the theory explained. That would be a great experience for Students of Architecture and all the work this architect generated. This could be illustrated in Unreal engine 5.2. Many of Le Corbusier work could be done in Grasshopper 3D and of course modeled for people to see and understand.
Why is no one talking about how amazing the graphics and animations are??? Like WOW every time I watch a video of yours it just gets cooler and cooler.
Honestly, on its own the designs could make a pretty unique city to see if any of it work (probably wouldn't), the problem come when you want to apply it to every pre-existing major city and it get nausea inducing to see, especially at the expense of historical buildings.
Corbusier inspired buildings in Netherlands look like more spaced out and nature filled commie blocks. I have soft spot for efficient buildings like these and they can really work. Demolishing historical centres is just rubbish tho.
In Le Corbusier's defense, Haussmann's very radical redevelopment of Paris was very much in living memory at the time. Some of those projects weren't finished until the twenties. A lot of what Corbusier was proposing to tear out would be akin to tearing out New Deal projects in the US, or postwar buildings in Europe today. A lot of the most iconic buildings and structures in Paris today really aren't super old, at least not by European standards. His ultra organized city planning was also a pretty standard thought at the time. See: American Suburbia. Which is truly heinous.
the music and the theme makes this seem like an analog horor of some sort. i like the vibe of this video and you did a good job describing everything so poetically
Unfortunately, he wasn't forgotten - his designs and rules are still very much talked about in architecture classes (sometimes without any criticism), as well as included in new buildings. He heavily influenced the international style and brutalism.
Separated by uses, monotonous, connected via highway, class segregated, and obsessed with how much of the area you can cover with grass…. Sounds a bit familiar as an American. Corbusier’s plan and modern American suburbs look nearly identical in all regards. Although they’re diametrically opposite when it comes to density.
His designs really do feel like if an alien or AI supercomputer was ordered to design the ultimate civilisation without actually considering how humans work. Some of the ideas are actually scientifically correct, but just so dystopian and strict. They would be so miserable to live in. I’m in favour of density and green space but he found way to make both things miserable and empty.
It's a terrible plan, but not an evil one. Corbusier believed in the city as a machine, it had to be optimized and old dirty streets were inefficient. He grew up in an age before modernism, and there weren't any projects like this (or Bijlmer) that proved his ideas wrong yet. The reinforced concrete seemed a magical material back then, finally allowing great spans in architecture, allowing light in and giving used free use of the floor plan. That light and greenery (lifting the building up, to give green space back to the city) are the core believes of his architecture and urbanism. That measurement system was based on the human body, because he wanted to make spaces optimized for the human body to use. He just took it way too far in this plan (and most of his urban schemes), as he later realized. His last works are more tactile, softer and more suited for the human soul. You can see his last buildings as his critique on his earlier works. He was not evil (although he did lean towards authoritarian regimes, but more because he could get his ideas built there), he just had misinformed dreams and learned later in life, as all of society did, that the building as a machine is not always ideal for the human soul.
7:49 wow, that one had me silent for a moment as a Dutchman. The Bijlmer is seen as (one of) the worst neighbourhood(s) of the Netherlands. The boring modernistic look of the flats randomly scrambled through the landscap worsening the problems that come from putting a bunch of poor people from all sorts of backgrounds (but mainly "non-Dutch" people) into one building. (I'm not racist, multiculturalism is amazing. But not when you have "poor multiculturalism". Multiculturalism is great when the people are not poor at the same time. Which is most certaintely the case in the Bijlmer. Making it one of the most typical "problem neighbourhoods" (probleemwijken) of my country.) Knowing a bit about Le Corbusier by now, of course he had to be the one behind the worst piece of city planning done in the city planning paradise of the Netherlands. :( The company towns of Eindhoven, a city I live nearby, are nothing compared to Corbusier. (the company towns of Eindhoven get more wholesome with the minute mainly compared to this....)
00:26 'as much a man who wanted to design buildings as one who wanted absolute power.' i just found this channel and have been binging it, and this has been what's struck me most so far. sure it's all interesting from a city-planning and architecture standpoint, but this sinister avarice for control and domination is a constant undercurrent. i find many of these videos chilling.
I wish I could remmeber the book, but I did find (and buy) an architecture book that was all about megaprojects proposed in the 60s. One was a complete redo of Paris, but a bit different, it was all egalitarian. There was a new perfect grid for Paris and it was laid out on a big grid and was bascially one big building that went for miles. It completely gave over the ground floor to transportation and shipping But then all these connected buildings had a grand "street" every 5 floors that was for pedestrians, but then the one big flat gridded roof was reserved for parks and recreation. I know this period of architecture was misguided, but I also see it from a rather romantic view as well, that belief that such a dramatic redesign of the world would change society. I think we forget too that after WWII, people were really looking to remake and recreate the world, that the 'old world" needed fixing somehow and had to be redesigned from the ground up. Misguided, nieve, but in the end admirable I think, we're just lucky those people didn't get more big projects done and we eventually came back to contexturalism and building on a human scale.
Everyone's steaming hate on Le Corbusier, but aside from city planning(he was not an urban layout planner, he was an architect), his individual projects were great. The blocky buildings we see today are not what he imagined 'condominiums' to be, it's just that his original plans and visions were butchered by people later who didn't understand what he really hoped to achieve.
Literally the towers from Judge Dredd, looks and sounds dystopian. But I guess that was kind of the point? That being said I kind of love the idea of different raised transport layers with buildings above the lower layers.
tbh makeing it more dense but also more green wouldnt be as bad :) also the disign to sepperate traffic is a good idea :) if i would plan a city i would make it circular... its devided in sectors/rings/ring-sectors Bulls Eye: Workspaces/Larger Shopping Opportunitys Inner Ring: Smaller Workspaces/Shopping/Medium-High Class Living 2nd Ring Low-Medium Class Living/Shoppiing for Daily needs so that u dont need a car Outer Ring Single Home Living + Daily Needs Shopping (less dense than in the 2nd Ring... but still doable without Car... Bulls Eye Inner and 2nd Ring would be Car Free with Autonomus Transport,EMS Reserved Roads and High Level of Public Transport ... outer ring is also connected to the Public Transport via Metro/Trams
This plan is not that bad, course could be fine tuned, but think about it. It has a good holistic approach, really spacious, lot of greens, fast, effective. About his "fasicts" utopia thoughts: even though it is easy to condemn, but he saw the reality, which is present even now. Look at New York, who own the fancy top story apartments, and look at the less skilled mobs, who live further away. Everything is more hectic compared to his plans, but the societal hierarchy is there.
The separation of traffic into layers might be one of the only decent ideas in the plan; it's how some of central Chicago is laid out, and removes a good amount of traffic from one of the most heavily-walked areas of the city.
I love Le Corbusier! He did so much for modernist principles in architecture despite his shortcomings. Every single apartment of his had to be modular so there was more usable living space while beds weren't in use (& more people could humanely live there if necessary) have a balcony and huge windows for light. That includes working class families in cities! According to him humans can't live without clean air and exercise. You need to remember the dismal living conditions of working class people in cities at the time when he began his work. Tiny, unclean hovels that were unlivable. He insited on having running water in all buildings no matter the class of inhabitants so they could wash their hands and designed sinks split in two to separate where food was cooked and where clothing etc. was washed with chemicals. He was absolutely obsessed with perfecting living for everyone which turned him into a supervillain. He firmly believed that a more controlled life would be the most humane for everyone. Another crazy project of his that failed spectacularly is the redesign of Chandigarh Capitol Complex in India which is an unlivable cement nightmare for people without any consideration for culture. He thought of whats best for society on a large scale and forgot the actual people living in it. Fascinating visionary!
@@aggravatedfruit_au True but he managed to implement to the Romanian Capital and most Romanian cities, what The Genius of the Riviera did not. Complete demolition and anihilation of the Romanian architectural history!
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Corrections/Nuances:
Paris population is referencing population of metropolitan region.
Student of Corbusier is student of modernism school, not actual student. No excuse for that, that's just bad writing on my part.
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Le Corbusier's ideas seem impractical on a real world scale, but he would have been a kick ass Cities: Skylines streamer.
with the player base's obsession with highways I can totally see that. But even beside that, some of his ideas work pretty well in-game
It has actually been put into use globally, though rarely to this scale. Highrise apartment complexes & public housing apartments are certainly an influence of his urban design.
Interestingly, his ideas were implemented on a smaller scalle in Paris... not in the city centre, but as public housing complexes in the outer suburbs. These places today are infamous for antisocial behavior, social issues, & crime.
Born in the wrong generation.
His political ideas would make him a neat Tropico streamer tho
@@jonathantan2469 The Bijlmer in the Netherlands (mentioned in this video) is also notorious for the same problems.
Seems while the ideas are kinda cool on a surface level idea, they are absolutely terrible for actual human beings. I personally think that the obsession with 'order' removes the natural flow of 'chaos' that is inherent in our hearts. You cannot order the human spirit without losing it in the process hence some natural disorganisation needs to remain to provide space for the soul to breath.
As a city planning student, we study Le Corbusier and his modernism influenced predecessors as a foundation of what not to do
SAME
As an architecture student, we studied Le Corbusier and his modernism as a general overview, not much critique was offered. A lot of architecture teaching seems to fail to imagine the lived experience of normal people. Architects have a terrible habit of isolating themselves from the realities of living. Ironically it creates awful architecture when this happens.
Sad. I would like to see this, I hate what kind of architecture is built nowadays. Same crazy density and low amount of green zones as in 1800s are usual. Really don't like cities like Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Vienna.
Same here
@@ligametis Totally agree. I don't know about Copenhagen and Vienna, but Amsterdam sucks badly. Everything is way too crowded, this dense "mixed-use" architecture makes you constantly overstimulated and worried if someone won't ride their bike right into you. It's too small, too dense and too loud. If I wanted to live in a bazaar, I'd move to one.
Le Corbusier really is the supervillain of architecture. You get the feeling all his plans were designed specifically to look cool when looking down on tiny models of them and not to actually be nice to live in.
Yeah, except his plan for his own rambling suburban home in a nice private garden. Oddly unlike the homes he envisaged for the rest of us.
Honestly I think he was a very good architect. As an uban planer, though, I have to agree.
@@theviniso No, he really wasn't. He has zero eye for aesthetics and form is just as important as function, if not more.
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva Love a 3-hour commute because some dumb architect thought it was cooler if there was grass instead of a bus stop.
@@user-cc32vcg811 Remind me: what has grass to do with architecture again? That's part of city planning.
Nebula really did snatch up all the urban planning RUclipsrs.
City Beautiful, Not just Bikes, Hoog, City Nerd. 4 of those on nebula that I follow are urban planning or have lots of discussion on it.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson The got RM Transit as well.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Most seem like usual anti car, pro rail propaganda.
@@ligametis propaganda xdd
@wrzesienkuba of course it was irony, but those channels are frequently ignoring that people have preferences and many love their cars. Sometimes it is even their favourite possession
There is a reason architecture and city planning are different fields.
They are heavily connected tho, u find a lot of architects working in City planning
@@miuhcupcake2285 we are doomed.
In my country, both are combined in one major (undergrad course). How is it where you live? :)
@@idromano same
I'm a designer and I regard architects the same way. Design is inherently connected to function. If it doesn't work, the design is useless.
Interesting that Corbusier designed for himself an airy, large house in a garden that most people would be glad to live in.
He designed every apartment with huge openable windows, rooftop gardens or access to balconies. Sounds pretty humane to me. Before he went of the rails batshit crazy with perfecting 'the living machine' he revolutionized living for the working class.
It's actually a fairly common, well known phenomenon called "The Design Disconnect". ruclips.net/video/C9pg2j2oGy0/видео.html
@@merileopardisaksassa7030 Soviet commies block revolutionised affordable houses for the working class.
A skyscraper is expensive as fuck to build and rent, no worker would be able to afford those.
@@tcclmnd Maybe they're talking about the Villa Jeanneret-Perret
@@_blank-_ You're probably right. Anyhow it would be his very early career, I don't think the radical ego and philosophy was there just yet.
I once had a class in my university on the history of art and architecture from the Parthenon to the present, and I distinctly remember the day we talked about Le Corbusier. There was such an overwhelmingly negative response from almost all the students. It's rare that someone can still garner as much hatred 100 years after their death.
He hasn't been dead for 100 years.
Not all he did was bad. He also contributed a lot to architecture. His five points of new architecture are still fundamental to modern buildings, things that we now give for granted, such as the importance of my having supporting walls to increase the sense of space and design freedom, the free design of façades and the large windows
Yes. It’s remarkable how his design for his own house was nothing like any of these horrible huge buildings: an airy, big-windowed suburban home in a private garden.
I can absolutely understand why.
he butchered so many beautiful cities, so yes, I'm not surprised by the reaction
As a Hongkonger myself I finally understood why does Le Corbusier’s plan rang so many bells in my head. That’s because Hong Kong follows a lot of Le Corbusier’s planning principles for many New Towns that are built after the 70s. All these skyscrapers lining up in a near grid like manner are housed with people, and with parks, malls and transit hubs near close proximity. Everything is walkable and conviennent, and most of the time you can get by without a car, but it’s also soul crushingly dull and suffocating because all you see are just the top of the buildings and not a vast open sky.
But his plan included lots of green spaces
Aye thanks for being a reasonable individual capable of pointing out the flaws in their living space
Asian cities are much more likely to have been influenced by modernism or international style, which was influenced a lot by Japan and pre-dated Le Corbusier but influenced him a lot.
This is wild to read as a suburbian, I couldn’t care less if I can see the open sky when everything else around me is damaged pavement, empty parking lots, and abandoned-damaged buildings.
@@AizakkuZ hong kong new towns are extremely well maintained, green, modern, frequently renovated and clean
The Notre Dame that's randomly burning in the corner had me LOL.
can ypu point out where and when on the video? I just couldnt find it...
@@vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906 3:20 - 3:30
It's not the first time it burned but certainly is the first one to involve muslim migrants pushed in from Germany Italy and Spain
If Le Corbusier has million haters, then I'm one of them.
If Le Corbusier has one hater, then I'm THAT ONE.
If Le Corbusier has no haters, that means I'm dead.
Same
except his drawings were quite cool imo
You can add me to this list
Me too. I love juxtaposing Le Corbusier with Frank Lloyd Wright in my art history class, and let my students draw their own conclusions.
Based
GOD I LOVE FLAUNTING MY WEALTH BY DISRUPTING THE BEAUTY OF CENTURIES OLD ARCHITECTURE
Basically
just another day here in the united states
Actually no. His whole point was to be more humane than the actual living conditions of his time. Every single one of his actual real-life buildings had running water for washing hands, made cleaning for hygiene incomprehensibly easy, had a terrace or balcony, was modular to give people more living space when not using their beds and had huge windows. One of his mottos was 'Humans wither away without access to fresh air, light and exercise'. He usually designed his apartments & houses to be affordable for poor to working class citizens.
Imagine being stuck in a tiny, unclean hovel with fungi growing in the ceiling & brick cracks without running water, having one, maybe two rooms for your whole family, and possibly sleeping in shifts with another family.
He was a revolutionary and we own him a lot for improving standards of living in regards to hygiene and quality of life.
He got too obsessed with his principles and lost all sense of what humans need socially and mentally and culturally, but his intentions were more than comandable. Seach for floorplans and pictures of his buildings in the Weissenhof Siedlung in Stuttgart!
In regards to the Nazi allegations: it's complicated. He might have been an authoritarian but on the left, not the right. He's more of a cimunist than a nazi. He was actually interogated by them several times, threatened and the previously mentioned Weissenhof Siedlung was shut down, almost destroyed, due to accusations of 'destroying cultural landscapes by making arabic white buildings'.
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True but you need to change centuries to century, at best
But back then in the 1920s, there was little appreciation for buildings which were mostly aging structures built in the 1800s, and used by the lower classes at that time.
In hindsight, it was a good thing his grand plan for Paris did not get off the drawing board.
I'm from India and visited Chadigarh enough times to comment on it. It is India's first planned city designed exclusively by Corbusier. It has a grid layout and is possibly the worst city in India for pedestrians. It's grid layout made distances long forcing almost everyone to have a car. Traffic is getting worse every year because population is growing and they need cars to move around.
The very same thing can be said about Brasília. Probably it is Brazil's least walkable city. There isn't much traffic there, though, as the highways are ridiculously large.
@A Z I don’t get why every discussion about India turns towards poverty. Maybe you should visit Chandigarh, it’s one of the richest cities of India. For every one good grid city there are 100 more which are the worst.
@user-tt3yj4lt4uThe difference is that those also give residents multiple options for travel, walking, buses, trains/subways.
@A Z Grid cities are some of the worst cities in terms of walkability and traffic. It's got nothing to do with economics and everything to do with fundamental design.
@@beaku3 Barcelona is doing fine with a grid layout. The problem isn't the grid itself but its scale ie the size of the roads and blocks.
The more I see master plans with order and symmetry, the more I think that OCD plays a big role. The "feeling" comes first (the orderly streets and buildings), then the justification ("This is the most efficient way, the most futuristic thing, etc...").
Thats an interesting take. Think i heard somewhere about the dictator types being orderly... way too orderly
CEOs are 40% more likely to suffer from psychopathy. Maybe there is something to this.
That's not what OCD is, but yea I get your point
You're confusing OCPD with OCD like most people. But that is understandable since the names of the disorders are not well though out.
The main tenets of authoritarian architecture are symmetry, monumentality, and modernism without a care for "degenerate" ornamentations. Hitler's planned Volkshalle comes to mind
God. Why can't architects just be normal people?
Why can't organists be
They are architechts.
Because they’re artists
The man was a fascist, he couldn't be normal.
@@jtgd Yea really autistic
It’s like architects are intentionally trying to build cyberpunk dystopias.
(Edit: architects are mad at me)
Not all architects
Not all policemen
Not all contractors
Not all doctors
Not all scientist
Blame the dicks, not the profession
Politicians, however...
*fascist architects
If it makes you feel any better, most new and young architects hate LeCorbusier. He was an egomaniacal loser. He was also not a very good person. He would steal credit for work, worked with fascists because all he cared about was his own work being done, and on one infamous instance, he was so jealous of a design by one of his ex employees, Eileen Gray, that he went and vandalized the house with paint to a point that was irreparable to its original condition. The house still exists, but it does not look how Eileen Gray originally designed it. The only good thing LeCorbusier did was create the concept of the open floor plan, in my humble opinion lol.
Cyberpunk ultimately came about as a warning about this exact sort of ideology so it's moreso the other way around.
It’s the inverse; writers of dystopia from the early 20th C based their dystopias in these architects’ visions.
Le Corbusier wasn't the first to want to bulldozer the centre of Paris, though. Baron Haussmann preceded him by a century or so. But his designs were made so long ago that most people now consider them tasteful.
Ideologically, Haussmann, Le Corbusier and Soviet urban planning have the same concept - totalitarianism - erasing the past to empower a new world view. Urban planning for controlling the empire age, for controlling the interwar era and for controlling the soviet era. You can argue about advantages, disadvantages and subtleties all day, they all exchanged something good/bad for something else good/bad.
@Mira Moche I also prefer the Haussmann type urban planning, similar to Barcelona's Eixample. But in the same time, the large avenues were made to easily shoot civilians with cannons in case of riots. Good/bad!
The author of this video did a video about it: ruclips.net/video/3WMF_L0V5SQ/видео.html
@Mira Moche I don't know man, last time I checked the New Reich Chancellary and various buildings in Italy built in the 1930s look by and far better (and more functional) than this weird French dude inspired by modernism, and those things were built under NatSoc/Fascist ideologies.
@Mira Moche haussman may not have been a fascist- but he was authoritarian. many of his changes to Paris were to make it harder for citizens to protest the government
I think a big issue that's overlooked with all these 'futuristic' cities, is that they completely disregard the inter-sub-communities that naturally find their places within grander communities, these cities are all designed with focus on the business and consumerism aspect of society and not the communities within a cities boundaries.
It's deliberate. Communites create self contained system of support, without putting money into the global economy. Carpooling and communal gardening and whatnot. From the perspective of a complete moron who thinks money is good, communities are immoral You gotta break up the possibility for communities to increase the cost of living to keep profits in line with inflation
@@fraziercrawford spot on IMO,
@@fraziercrawford That's virtually impossible. People will always establish communities. The three despots in history that tried to eradicate any semblance of community were the Nazis, the Stalinists (communists on steroids), and Maoists. And they tried to do so through atrocities.
THIS!
there must be a balance, economic gain, humanism
Come to Seoul. Le Corbusier's ideas literally came to life. Such a depressing cityscape.
Idk why but these type of buildings are just the worst place to live in France and maybe Russia. They had been built after WW2 to rebuild cities, to re-inhabit all people but failed. In Netherland, they successfully did it
It is commonly seen not only in Seoul but also throughout the country, even in rural and mountainous areas.
Seoul looks the way it does for reasons that should be very obvious to anyone. The city was destroyed multiple times in the 20th century. I'm going to be honest with you, the newer buildings in Seoul and the outskirts look a lot nicer than the drab, miserable architecture of Tokyo.
Love how Le Corbusier said Belgrade was an ugly city, because it had so many different architectural styles...
I almost feel bad for these hyper neurotic types that have been assured so many times thru out their lives that their compulsive inflexibility is a positive attribute. All someone had to do was NOT punish them when they expressed themselves and these things wouldn't even happen
Funnily enough, New Belgrade is essentially Le Corbusier's dreams come to fruition.
"There are just too many countries"
-Le Corbusier and Hitler
Was Dobrovic Le Corbusier's student?
What's so beautiful with Belgrade is how you can read all the layers of the city so easily, one can really see in what different time period the city blossomed intertwined with stagnation. It could be one of the most beautiful cities in the world if just all the buildings were washed and some of them restored. All the layers are there, all the time periods are represented.
Funny enough, a professor of mine discussed this topic on Brasilia. A friend of his left anecdote of the living conditions there:
the people go to work, and it is always cold. there is no life here. And once the weekend arrives, the streets lie empty, as all jumped on trucks and planes to head back to Rio de Janeiro. Once Monday comes, the streets go full again, but the life is still cold.
Actually living isn't that bad over here. Given that the city started from literally nothing (everything was "finished" in 1960), there were no historical buildings to be built over or near; knowing the exact location of a building is easy (streets don't have names, they follow a numbering order), going to places is easy as well, and the buildings on stilts give the residential areas a pretty cool look imo.
Also loads of places good for partying, if that's what your friend likes the most (without the rampant crime and violence as in Rio)
is it even that bad? bro i live in brasilia with my parents n my childhood is full of wonderful memories. people here r a community
When you’re in a worst city design planning competition and your opponent is le corbusier 😔
It's ok unless they convince him it's a best city design planning competition
When you're in a city design planning competition for the new world order and your opponent is Le Corbusier 😱
Most people: "Le Corbusier is a bad person because his buildings look ugly. Luckily we didn't go for his vision." Me thinking about all the modern cities with the same glass buildings:"....."
They all look decent to me. Don’t know what’s the gripe with modern buildings when they are perfectly fine. If anything people moved on from “beautiful historic” buildings because they all looked the same for their time as well and frankly I don’t find beauty in many of the old decorated buildings either.
He's literally responsible for these glass buildings too. The International Style comes in part from his work. You can also add Brutalism to his long list of crimes.
@@saosaqii5807 It's horrible and crush the human soul. There is lot of studies about it. Also it's pretty much the mc donalds or zara of building. No local identify (you have the same from Berlin and Cairo to Tokyo) and mediocre.
Modern buildings are still preferable because in most places they aren’t seperated by 3 layers of (up to) 20lane roads surrounded by flat grass fields with no trees.
@@karakarakiri9568 agreed, cultural and certain traditional buildings are nice but just absolutely not the classical and overly decorated with meaningless art kind. Beauty is subjective yes but many classical buildings just ain’t for me. A few here and there amazing. Building too many of them as a common scenery? Equally bad.
I'm glad they kept the old part of Paris in tact. The high rises and modern downtown are several km away which is great for keeping the historic areas looking historic.
There is almost no real old Paris intact. We can fake imperialist Paris due to Haussmann, that demolished most of it in mid 1860s
Paris is technically younger than the US architecturally, about the same age as DC. It’s why both cities share similar concepts and styles.
@@SCIFIguy64 Yes but no, unlike the United States there are several buildings in Paris from the Renaissance, medieval and Roman periods.
@@kal_bewe1837 Like where? There is literally no neighborhood I know of in Paris where most architecture is older than the 1850s... Also there is a great total of two roman buildings (the arenas and the baths which were excavated), and medieval buildings are mostly churches... I wouldn't even be able to name a single "rennaissance" era building in Paris (apart from a bridge), some of them date indeed to the modern era, but more the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, and few of them are residential. Paris like most european cities isn't that old. If you want old cities you should better go to cities which have preserved their medieval center (Carcassone, Bourge, Köln, Dijon and others) or to Italy and the MENA which where a lot more urbanized in earlier times.
@@azarshadakumuktir4551 You can get under a Euro’s skin by informing them that there are buildings in Colorado older than Rome.
Or in other words: How to make a city look bland, ugly, and not unique.
It certainly would have been unique.
@@johnstevenson5084 Yes, it would be unique for its bland and ugliness.
All modern skyscrapers be like
@@johnstevenson5084 You have got to be kidding me. How is that a virtue? It would be a dystopian nightmare in the middle of what used to be known as one of the most beautiful cities on Earth.
@@Daniel-jv1ku I never said it was a virtue.
As always, great visuals followed by intriguing topic, keep 'em coming.
5:14 "And unsurprisingly, he had a weird relationship with his mom, and also fascists, which often goes hand in hand" I really felt that
He's a coping leftist, that's what they usually whine about
nazzis when the shoe fits
your videos have no bussiness looking this slick, it's amazing. glad to be here before you hit a milli subs, which is gonna happen in a couple months i'm pretty sure
The one truly good idea here is green space. Corbusier correctly realized that new materials like reinforced concrete opened up new possibilities. We tried this in the US with housing projects, and most failed spectacularly. However, look at a satellite view of NYC and the housing projects look almost like parks, because of all the green space. We should use this one positive effect of such architecture.
I feel like Le Corbusier had a lot of good ideas but was just awful at implementing them
Honestly, I get the association of “towers in the park” with cramped commie blocks, but there really is so much potential for liveable neighborhoods with the green space and towers design
The problem with public social housing projects is if you concentrate a large number of lower income folks together into a compound of high density towers... including people with drug & alcohol issues, delinquents, unemployed, & behavioural problems... you get a compounding effect of social issues & crime in the area.
This is also a problem in Europe, and also here in Australia. Subsequent town planning now focuses on smaller lower density developments scattered between suburbs & careful selection of residents to avoid this problem.
@@jonathantan2469Bro I was JUST saying how towers in the park has a connotation of low-income public housing. I’m not saying anything about income brackets here, just that towers in the park would honestly be nice to live in, with 70% green space and walkability.
(Also, did you just insinuate that exclusionary suburb planning is a good thing, or am I projecting what I hate onto you for a minor quibble)
Towers in a park areas are not walkable since you spread everything out between huge empty fields of grass with little recreational value. The unnecessary big distances between buildings created by spreading them out between empty fields of grass makes these areas very car dependent
0:45 5 million population for a city in 1930 is freaking nuts.
there were close to a million people living in rome in the year 400
@@jeremycurle6880 1 million population for a city in 400 is freaking nuts.
@@imonymous 1 million freaking nuts
London had well over 6 million people by 1900 and Rome had 1 million people by 1 AD.
@@Fred_the_1996 you mean 500,000 freaking nuts considering rest 50% are Females lol
Why is bro explaining it like it's a movie 💀
The “I am not French” at 0:22 with the light switch being turned on seemed dramatic and gave me a little chuckle the way it was presented
Though, he is French. I don't know why they wrote that.
@@yuki_musha He was Swiss, though he lied about his nationality in order to work with Pétains regime.
@@_jpg He acquired the French nationality 10 years before Pétain's regime (so 9 years before WWII). He didn't need to lie about anything.
@@_jpgHe became French in 1930. That was before everything happened relating to WWII. Although, he DID collaborate with Pétain’s regime and he did have various links with Fascist and Anti-Semitic organizations.
0:37 from the 1920 to 1930 the population grew from 4 to 5000000. Surely the population increased by 124999900% in 10 years.
@@-JBYT- How ironic
@@Gryphnn What object? Tyres or doors?
@Gryphnn 4 to 5000000 is basically short for "4 million to 5 million" not literal 4 people to 5 mil people
@@aseasweatz So what would you say if you actually mean just 4 people?
Brainrot logic.
The fact that this plan ever even existed fills me with unspeakable dread
Your videos are a piece of art, you also mention topics unknown to people... incredible 🔥
De vrede der kunst
Should be "piece of art". And ye, Hoog topics are really interesting.
@@cavemann_ thank you
I like a draft that Corbu made to illustrate his proposal, in which he had the BALLS to write "l'academie dit non" or "academics said no."
So he was using disapproval from academics as a selling point?
@@imonymous I suppose that's the of-the-time equivalent to being one of those conspiracy weirdos complaining about "mainstream scientists".
@@imonymous I guess you can use anti-intellectualism as an excuse for anything
Anyone else read this in a Carol Beer voice in their head?
"MY IDEAS WILL NOT BE CONSTRAINED BY THE DICTATORSHIP OF SELF-PROCLAIMED "EXPERTS"!!!!!"
*drinks bleach*
*fucking dies*
Le Corbusier is the reason why the general public has disdain for modern architecture. And there’s a good reason for that. An example of trash modernist architecture on a implemented on large scale is in New York City. New York City is just like Paris. Organic growth, walkable, and narrow street meant for pedestrians. Then here comes Robert Moses who was obsessed with cars and segregation. He demolished plenty of historical neighborhoods to pave way for highways cutting in between neighborhoods. He built hideous public housing shaped like crosses, just like Le Corbusier’s designs. To this day, they’re hideous. There are neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn, and especially The Bronx that have to live with the eyesore and negative health effects of highways - also very impractical for us pedestrians.
3:21
Nice touch in making the Notre Dame literally Explode
I love the slight shade and deadpan humour you include. Always catches me off-guard, love it.
I'm going to be using this as a cheat sheet whenever I can't think of visuals - sorry, not sorry
Cool to see you here! Love your videos and visual styles too!
Hoog from the top! Excellent video.
He'd be a good set designer for dystopian media.
Can we get a French Bioshock/Atomic Heart set in a city like this? That would be awesome.
It's called "La Seine Saint-Denis"
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Is that actually a game?
@@sion8 Nope, it's a department in France
@@Crow-lz7et
Oh, man!
That burning Notre Dame tho💀
Somehow, I think Le Corbuisier would approve...
@@jonathantan2469 prolly lol
This video is a masterpiece.
Babe wake up! Hoog posted
people like Le Corbusier are the exact reason why architects need to be kept on leash, he could have built that shit anywhere, but he chose the historic center of Paris. one of the quintessential centers for western culture and aesthetics. people like him hate beauty, they hate humanity and this should be recognized in all the things they do and be responded with the utmost disdain and dismissal of their ideas. i am truly glad his ideas didn't get through.
That seems a bit extreme
he was literally facist, but you generalise an extreme individual on millions of architects? do you also hate modern day germany because of hitler?
Would you rather have aesthetics or have enough houses for people to live affordably?
@@shanewalker3273 The first, without a doubt. The second can always be achieved with *remigrating the non-Europeans currently taking up houses everywhere in Europe.*
"one of the quintessential centers for western culture and aesthetics" not it isn't lmao. The entirety of the region Corbusier would destroy was built following an authoritarian mindset to impede roadblocks at to make protestors more vulnerable. Thousands were displaced and most of the poor population was kicked out. It's a trillion times better than Corbusier's quasi-fascist design, but if it simbolizes something, it is how urban planning can be made to gentrify and punish the minorities; don't let the pretty decorations fool you
Went to Architecture school. We learned a LOT about Corbusier in our history courses, and while I think his city plans and many of his macro-scale concepts were flawed and oftentimes problematic, I did learn to appreciate some of his architectural work when it came to living spaces and places of community.
While many works are out of date, one would be remiss to discount his contributions to modernism and architecture through designs attempting to reconcile mass housing materials with modern age living requirements (even if not always successful). I’ll recommend Corbu’s Five points of architecture if anyone wants reading, as well as a look into well-executed brutalist buildings.
The style is heavy but it shouldn’t need to be overly dark or oppressive. In fact, it can be quite light and airy at times.
3:26 notre dame got done dirty🗿
Banger
Wow. Stunning video❤
Le Corbusier's "cruciform towers in a park" concept was widely adopted by several US cities for their public housing projects (like Cabrini-Green).
It revealed some massive problems with the design-- because of the parks and single-use scheme, residents were physically very far from grocery stores, shops, offices, etc, which isolated them and redoubled their poverty. Add in elevator/mechanical mismanagement and you've got a recipe for disaster.
Why not open up a grocery store in a place like that? Seems like an untapped market.
Le Corbusier is probably a city architect for Ingsoc in 1984
I kinda like where this guys coming from, efficiency being key in his designs.
Knowing the build quality of Corbusier's buildings, the inner city of Paris would now be threatened by a total collapse if this plan went through.
Cities: Skylines may use this model as a DLC with all the theory explained. That would be a great experience for Students of Architecture and all the work this architect generated.
This could be illustrated in Unreal engine 5.2. Many of Le Corbusier work could be done in Grasshopper 3D and of course modeled for people to see and understand.
Great animations dude! Really sets this channel apart from others! Pleasure to watch!
the most neutral person:
I'm loving the "I am not french" text it brings the video all together for no reason
The three years I spent doing my urban studies degree basically came down to ‘do not do what the modernists tried to do’
Why is no one talking about how amazing the graphics and animations are??? Like WOW every time I watch a video of yours it just gets cooler and cooler.
Honestly, on its own the designs could make a pretty unique city to see if any of it work (probably wouldn't), the problem come when you want to apply it to every pre-existing major city and it get nausea inducing to see, especially at the expense of historical buildings.
Corbusier inspired buildings in Netherlands look like more spaced out and nature filled commie blocks. I have soft spot for efficient buildings like these and they can really work. Demolishing historical centres is just rubbish tho.
In Le Corbusier's defense, Haussmann's very radical redevelopment of Paris was very much in living memory at the time. Some of those projects weren't finished until the twenties. A lot of what Corbusier was proposing to tear out would be akin to tearing out New Deal projects in the US, or postwar buildings in Europe today. A lot of the most iconic buildings and structures in Paris today really aren't super old, at least not by European standards.
His ultra organized city planning was also a pretty standard thought at the time. See: American Suburbia. Which is truly heinous.
hero: i wonder where the villain is hiding
*the villain*
I love how you manage to include any kind of church or cathedral being burnt on your videos
Le Corbusier sounds like the perfect man to design a sci-fi dystopia.
the music and the theme makes this seem like an analog horor of some sort. i like the vibe of this video and you did a good job describing everything so poetically
Half architects in the world admire Le Corbusier, the other half hate him so much.
Amazing video. Great to learn about people forgotten in time
Unfortunately, he wasn't forgotten - his designs and rules are still very much talked about in architecture classes (sometimes without any criticism), as well as included in new buildings. He heavily influenced the international style and brutalism.
Separated by uses, monotonous, connected via highway, class segregated, and obsessed with how much of the area you can cover with grass…. Sounds a bit familiar as an American.
Corbusier’s plan and modern American suburbs look nearly identical in all regards. Although they’re diametrically opposite when it comes to density.
As a parisian, i'm happy this never went beyond the "le funny lego city" phase 😐
His designs really do feel like if an alien or AI supercomputer was ordered to design the ultimate civilisation without actually considering how humans work. Some of the ideas are actually scientifically correct, but just so dystopian and strict. They would be so miserable to live in. I’m in favour of density and green space but he found way to make both things miserable and empty.
I subbed before I even got through the intro - the quality of this is on another level
It's a terrible plan, but not an evil one. Corbusier believed in the city as a machine, it had to be optimized and old dirty streets were inefficient.
He grew up in an age before modernism, and there weren't any projects like this (or Bijlmer) that proved his ideas wrong yet. The reinforced concrete seemed a magical material back then, finally allowing great spans in architecture, allowing light in and giving used free use of the floor plan. That light and greenery (lifting the building up, to give green space back to the city) are the core believes of his architecture and urbanism. That measurement system was based on the human body, because he wanted to make spaces optimized for the human body to use.
He just took it way too far in this plan (and most of his urban schemes), as he later realized. His last works are more tactile, softer and more suited for the human soul. You can see his last buildings as his critique on his earlier works. He was not evil (although he did lean towards authoritarian regimes, but more because he could get his ideas built there), he just had misinformed dreams and learned later in life, as all of society did, that the building as a machine is not always ideal for the human soul.
It hits hard for me given I just visited Chandigarh, India's blandest city in my personal opinion.
Damn Hoog, the video editing and animations have become excellent. Bring back the Patreon!
7:49 wow, that one had me silent for a moment as a Dutchman.
The Bijlmer is seen as (one of) the worst neighbourhood(s) of the Netherlands. The boring modernistic look of the flats randomly scrambled through the landscap worsening the problems that come from putting a bunch of poor people from all sorts of backgrounds (but mainly "non-Dutch" people) into one building. (I'm not racist, multiculturalism is amazing. But not when you have "poor multiculturalism". Multiculturalism is great when the people are not poor at the same time. Which is most certaintely the case in the Bijlmer. Making it one of the most typical "problem neighbourhoods" (probleemwijken) of my country.)
Knowing a bit about Le Corbusier by now, of course he had to be the one behind the worst piece of city planning done in the city planning paradise of the Netherlands. :(
The company towns of Eindhoven, a city I live nearby, are nothing compared to Corbusier. (the company towns of Eindhoven get more wholesome with the minute mainly compared to this....)
I think the phrase the captures Le Corbusier the best is that he thought of housing as "machines for living in".
I don't understand why nobody told him "How about you yourself live in a living machine, and let the rest of us live in actual homes"
underrated channel
Certified Burgundy Ost-Paris moment
And this is why you never give an architect absolute power.
00:26 'as much a man who wanted to design buildings as one who wanted absolute power.' i just found this channel and have been binging it, and this has been what's struck me most so far. sure it's all interesting from a city-planning and architecture standpoint, but this sinister avarice for control and domination is a constant undercurrent. i find many of these videos chilling.
I wish I could remmeber the book, but I did find (and buy) an architecture book that was all about megaprojects proposed in the 60s. One was a complete redo of Paris, but a bit different, it was all egalitarian. There was a new perfect grid for Paris and it was laid out on a big grid and was bascially one big building that went for miles. It completely gave over the ground floor to transportation and shipping But then all these connected buildings had a grand "street" every 5 floors that was for pedestrians, but then the one big flat gridded roof was reserved for parks and recreation. I know this period of architecture was misguided, but I also see it from a rather romantic view as well, that belief that such a dramatic redesign of the world would change society. I think we forget too that after WWII, people were really looking to remake and recreate the world, that the 'old world" needed fixing somehow and had to be redesigned from the ground up. Misguided, nieve, but in the end admirable I think, we're just lucky those people didn't get more big projects done and we eventually came back to contexturalism and building on a human scale.
I love your videos hide that you continue to make them into the future
Everyone's steaming hate on Le Corbusier, but aside from city planning(he was not an urban layout planner, he was an architect), his individual projects were great. The blocky buildings we see today are not what he imagined 'condominiums' to be, it's just that his original plans and visions were butchered by people later who didn't understand what he really hoped to achieve.
Some RUclips Urbanists: "But it's more density! If he just puts in more bike lanes, then this would be perfect!!!"
Adam something
@@professionalboomer Love his channel. Doubt he'd like this design though, it's clearly built for cars.
@@theviniso You are right, replace car and put tram/subway and u will have adam somethings dream city lol
@@professionalboomer He doesn't like skyscrappers, though, and prefers more modest buildings.
@@MarioFanGamer659 He always talks about high density commie blocks (Btw i watch him regulary and like his vids, i am just stating facts)
Your videos are insanely amazing I've never seen RUclipsrs use this kind of graphic design😊
Literally the towers from Judge Dredd, looks and sounds dystopian. But I guess that was kind of the point? That being said I kind of love the idea of different raised transport layers with buildings above the lower layers.
I really like your visuals man
This is the most Jacobin thing since the French revolution.
tbh makeing it more dense but also more green wouldnt be as bad :) also the disign to sepperate traffic is a good idea :) if i would plan a city i would make it circular... its devided in sectors/rings/ring-sectors Bulls Eye: Workspaces/Larger Shopping Opportunitys Inner Ring: Smaller Workspaces/Shopping/Medium-High Class Living 2nd Ring Low-Medium Class Living/Shoppiing for Daily needs so that u dont need a car Outer Ring Single Home Living + Daily Needs Shopping (less dense than in the 2nd Ring... but still doable without Car... Bulls Eye Inner and 2nd Ring would be Car Free with Autonomus Transport,EMS Reserved Roads and High Level of Public Transport ... outer ring is also connected to the Public Transport via Metro/Trams
This plan is not that bad, course could be fine tuned, but think about it. It has a good holistic approach, really spacious, lot of greens, fast, effective.
About his "fasicts" utopia thoughts: even though it is easy to condemn, but he saw the reality, which is present even now. Look at New York, who own the fancy top story apartments, and look at the less skilled mobs, who live further away. Everything is more hectic compared to his plans, but the societal hierarchy is there.
3:13 is a very good summary of how little thought went into this project.
What could possibly go wrong?
The separation of traffic into layers might be one of the only decent ideas in the plan; it's how some of central Chicago is laid out, and removes a good amount of traffic from one of the most heavily-walked areas of the city.
This video is crazy. Those animations🤯
I love Le Corbusier!
He did so much for modernist principles in architecture despite his shortcomings. Every single apartment of his had to be modular so there was more usable living space while beds weren't in use (& more people could humanely live there if necessary) have a balcony and huge windows for light. That includes working class families in cities! According to him humans can't live without clean air and exercise. You need to remember the dismal living conditions of working class people in cities at the time when he began his work. Tiny, unclean hovels that were unlivable. He insited on having running water in all buildings no matter the class of inhabitants so they could wash their hands and designed sinks split in two to separate where food was cooked and where clothing etc. was washed with chemicals.
He was absolutely obsessed with perfecting living for everyone which turned him into a supervillain. He firmly believed that a more controlled life would be the most humane for everyone. Another crazy project of his that failed spectacularly is the redesign of Chandigarh Capitol Complex in India which is an unlivable cement nightmare for people without any consideration for culture.
He thought of whats best for society on a large scale and forgot the actual people living in it. Fascinating visionary!
Another great video
i thought this was an ongoing plan thank god i was wrong
Nice video! I enjoyed the pace. Cool voice too.
Wow, Paris almost had it’s own Ceausescu.
@@aggravatedfruit_au True but he managed to implement to the Romanian Capital and most Romanian cities, what The Genius of the Riviera did not. Complete demolition and anihilation of the Romanian architectural history!