• Victor Zambrano@mastodon.social
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    19 days ago

    @mattblaze Le Corbusier in particular has been criticised about his architecture, most of the times from views of his buildings that tend not to include the attached gardening and spacing that he made part of his proposals, ideas trying to bring open spaces to every building and every inhabitant, an idea that’s as loable as it is costly, unfortunately, and easy to dismiss when the view focus only on the magnanimous concrete rectangles, which is easier than to capture the whole concept.

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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      19 days ago

      @argonaut While I agree that this is hard to photograph, I disagree that this helps vindicate him. The widespread adoption - untested and as an article of faith - of the “flow” theory that he promoted was responsible for several decades of disastrous, neighborhood-destroying “urban renewal” projects in NYC and elsewhere in the US. It also cemented the need to have a car in many previously walkable places.

      • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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        18 days ago

        @argonaut@mastodon.social Of course, this isn’t a criticism of the buildings themselves, which were stylistically products of a much larger movement, but of exactly the larger context you’re talking about. Plazas and other features around living- and work-spaces are great, but they largely precluded letting people organically evolve how we use precious urban space.