Those supposed hated areas of old Paris with tight streets and old buildings are now (those not knocked down by Le Corbusier's tribe anyway.) highly sought after neighbourhoods for their human scale, cosy organic lines of sight and interactive street life. All they needed was good plumbing and drainage which they now have.

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"The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car. We shall use up tires, wear out road surfaces and gears, consume oil and gasoline. All of which will necessitate a great deal of work … enough for all." - Le Corbusier, 1935

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"Looking at the Marseille building now, surrounded by a sea of buildings, it actually looks ridiculous when one considers the social purposes it claimed to fulfill". - Also Rossi

In 1986 I moved to Amsterdam because I was accepted at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art. To get a living space the easiest and quickest way was in the subburbs of Amsterdam in that time, if one wanted enough living and wòrking space. So I moved to the Bijlmer, in the south under Amsterdam. The whole area was ( more or less ) inspired by the architecture of Le Corbusier. I've lived there for ten years and I can tell you it was TERRIBLE ! It was life threatening to walking there on your own at night ! The whole archiecture was immensely unpersonal, cold and alienated. Nóbody dared to make use of the green ground floor spaces and walking routes. Only the criminals dared. In 1996 I moved to Amsterdam West and it was SUCH a relief to actually have a kind of social control again. Small scaled houses where the neighboors knew when I returned home after a nights drinking. So Le Corbussiers reality was merely one , based on a drawing table reality. Not my cup of thee.

His mother saying "Yes, very good, but my roof is still leaking." is made to sound like a villainess in this documentary. But imagine being bankrupted by your famous son because of the first house he built, and whom you have indulged for your entire adult life, then later being built another house by him that isn't even basically sound. It seems like he may have wanted to impress his mother, but he kept disregarding her basic comfort and feelings in pursuit of his passions. Would any of you think it is OK to bankrupt your parents for your career aspirations and then "make up for it" years later after the damage had been done by putting them in an artistic experiment of a home for your own vanity which had water coming through the ceiling? It sounds like his parents indulged their eccentric son out of love and got no appreciation and shit on for it. She showed a remarkable amount of patience, if you ask me...

Fabulous documentary. Thank you so much.

A great start to get to know him. Thank you!

Great documentary!!!

This is so very interesting and informative

Greetings from Brazil, tks for the content

Wonderful thank You 🙏

I wonder what his opinion would've been of the work of Oscar Niemeyer ( 1907 - 2012) ?

Regarding the Villa Savoye, it's a beautiful modernist building, but the first owner hated living there. It froze in the winter, always leaked badly in the rain, so much so, that it was claimed the ceilings were soaking and effectively rained inside various rooms, while water pooled deeply for weeks on the roof. Eventually it was abandoned in a mere decade to various non residential uses. It's been necessary to restore the building three times since.

Watch the first 2 minutes of the movie Dredd (2012). The future-dystopian city is a copy of 'Ville radieuse.' There's a reason why nearly all future-dystopian cities are rendered with Corb's inhumane, Brutalist vision/legacy.

Would love to see Waldemar to do a documentary on Ellsworth Kelly please

The same thing happened to Albany, New York, USA. Much of the city's dingy urban core was demolished to create a minimalist airy plaza and tall modernist buildings for the New York state government.

It's always nice to know who to blame.

The only good thing you can say about him is that he actually lived in his own design, unlike architects that have long 'admire' his work but in no way would ever want to live or work in one of his 'creations'

i find myself feeling im being panted a rosey picker of a guy and his art and not the truth witch i can see with my own eyes the ruff leaking bit is gold it tells me all about him.

There is so much similarities between some buildings from all over world I am just wondering if there maybe be only one architect foreseeing over things and then you get the secondary architects thats the ones you go on about all the time they are the ones that go down in history as building these buildings.While at the same time hiding the main architect from us?

I wouldn’t say a leaky roof is a small thing. Mold will ruin your health.

Impressed by how Charles Jeanneret-Gris styled Le Corbusier as a ... business consultant, a new kind of professional: a cool looking project maker and solution provider, an artist who deals with new technologies and creates an air of scientific infallibility. Even the humanitarian/democratic rhetoric of the left, later inherited by the neolibs, was present. As an admirer of Nietzsche, he imagined the overman as the prototype of the professional managerial and consultancy class.

Casa Curuchet in La Plata is fantastic!!

wow youtube has become unbearable, every 3 minutes i have to skip an ad. Is there somewhere else i can watch the whole thing?

He did get to build his city its called Chandigarh in India.

Sure would appreciate captions.

38:08 "Le Corbusier applied all his architectural know-how to it" in building his elderly mother a house to live out her years. 38:18 "It was very functional and agreeable." Then at 38:30 "...but Marie, dissatisfied, focused on the small problem she encountered in this house"-- THE ROOF LEAKED. So the world-famous architect applies all his know-how and designs a very functional and agreeable house for an elderly woman, but she is out of line for thinking the ROOF SHOULDN'T LEAK? Also, regarding that rectangular shoebox for his mom, I'd love to know the reasoning for putting two incredibly narrow steps at the front door -- looks like a super way to get an elderly person injured.

it was a horrible idea then as it would be today... Ego's similar to what we must deal with today

No mention of Chandigarh in India, that interested me, these buildings were magnificent along with the church, very organic, the Paris city would’ve been a nightmare, leave it to the Saudi now to create a nightmarish future

That’s the problem w/ utopian thinking; it always fails, because we humans are fallible and imperfect. People need to cultivate humility, and realize they don’t need to do this , that utopia won’t ever be in this world, but the next.

quo Vadis,Domine ? Waar gaat ge heen Heer ?( Joh,13:16

Are you sure this is not Arthur Askey?

Man how he was only wrong Nobody wants to live in his concrete monster buildings and city center appartments are sky racketing pricies Its the street what makes houses attractive for living

Please do a video on architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

His works in India are curiously omitted.

Pretty much the complaint of anyone living in a Frank Lloyd Wright too… 😂

Thank The Gods his plans for the centre of Paris didn't came through. It would've been desastrously ugly.

I didn’t know he had ‘mummy issues’

Fix the fucking roof!

Horrible music mostly and too short time to watch the visual details but at least one thing was remarkable: His mother reminded him (wisely, I think) of realities of the architecture, which is meant for life not for show - the leaking roof was a bad design and whatever other great features there might have been, were shadowed with the leaking roof...

Beyond brilliant. I adore his lighthouse. This gentleman was a genius. Australia.

Wow, lots of haters here.

He is a fabulous man and great designer...

Thank you so much for educating us 🌸 Le Corbusier is the genius ahead of his time 💐

Le Corbusier's buildings look cold and mass-produced, like housing projects thrown up after WWII, all square and boxy. They have no soul, and all that concrete has no warmth. They remind me of films like 'Modern Times' and 'Metropolis'. Yes, he may have been famous all over the world, but his mother was right. If the roof leaks from day one, it means the house was not designed well. No one should have to put up with that, especially if the designer should have known that something as basic as a proper pitch to the roof would have prevented it.

He’s Stravinsky with buildings

Le Corbusier: The Godfather of Modern Architecture and the Devil of Good Architecture

What an incredible documentary! He truly was a genius and his buildings are beyond magnificent

The godfather of all that is ugly in modern architecture.

First he set up shop with no credentials and little formal training, bankrupted his parents by building them an extravagant house he knew they couldn't afford, and then complained endlessly about his life where he got no work (in two different towns). Then he became friends with a high-society socialite, got work because of his friend's contacts and endorsements, and instantly became a successful celebrity artist/architect. Let me put it this way: his theories about architecture and modernity advocate mass-producing basic units of housing for everyone (but not for himself or his family, clearly),essentially throwing away creativity and individuality for the inner-city high-rise estate. But even his other works seem to be either highly derivative or pretty much…sterile/bland.

Wanna add any more fucking ads?

Unfortunately, the narrator sounds like she's has as much knowledge of her subject as quantum mechanics. A narrator's voice sets the tone of a documentary and IMHO, her tone falls short of the (rather serious) genius she's talking about.\

His housing block in Marseille actually gives me the creeps. Monolithic, unattractive, frightening at sight. The addition of primary colors is like adding insult to injury. His term "machine for happiness" sounds quite ominous, actually. He tried to impose his architecture on cities throughout the world, since European cities weren't welcoming it enough (it's said in this documentary that he welcomed the destruction of cities by bombing so he could get more work for himself). He designed a building 10 kilometers long for Algiers -- thank goodness for them that didn't happen. His work in Chandigarh, India isn't included in this documentary, but it, too, is monolithic (the secretariat building), unwelcoming, unattractive and frightening. The assembly building in Chandigarh looks like a dirty nuclear power plant at best, with a grim, filthy water feature out front, and the high court building looks like a child's concept with the wacky misshapen cutouts in the concrete and again the primary colors. As if that all weren't enough, he tosses in the "House of Shadows," a pointless and confusing structure on the grounds of government buildings.

Now, I understand why his work was so sterile, unappealing and dull. If I was his mom with the leaking roof I would have been pissed too. All of his works show a desire for people to live as HE wanted them to, not at all like they might want to live. Beware all would be artists of the desire to control others with your art. It always leads to crap.

So sad he could never impress his mother 😔 kinda soul crushing seeing as he was so influential but still could not achieve the one thing he strived…

Horrible artist and somehow even worse architect. Unfortunately he was very overrated and influental… the damage has already been done.

Great documentary but AWFUL voice narrator. I can't stand it.... Too bad because it was really interesting

Another hagiography to 'modern architecture'. No ones likes this stuff

One of humanity's biggest smoke sellers.