The Cities of Le Corbusier...Creating Reality or Predicting the Future?

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Towers in a park or in a parking lot, high-rise projects have been erected in cities all over the world in the 60s 70s and onwards - we all know them. Sometimes these work but often they are a disaster, frequently demolished and dismissed as a flawed premise about how to build a city!
How did these happen? If we trace back we find that fingers (especially those of urban planners) are pointing towards Le Corbusier.
Charles Edouard Jeanneret, there is hardly a more charged character in the spatial arts and sciences.
In this video, I try to understand how the avant-guard plans that Corbu came up with in the 20s influenced and inspired so much of what had been built in the Great Cities of planet Earth.
The music you can hear at the end of this film is a composition "Cylinder Six" By Chris Zabriskie;
You can listen to the entire piece here: • Video
If your curiosity about Corbu's urban has been sparked here are some of my sources for further reading:
Le Corbusier, 1929: The City of To-morrow and Its Planning
Peter Hall, 1988: Cities of Tomorrow - Chapter 7: The City of Towers
Robert Fishman, 1977: Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century
Wade Graham, 2016: Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World - Chapter 3: Slabs
Witold Rybczynski, 2010: Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities - Chapter 2: Three Big Ideas
William J. R. Curtis, 2001: Le Corbusier Ideas and Forms
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A Note on Copyright:
This short film was written edited, narrated and animated by myself, the creator of Spatial Snowflakes and a dedicated disciple of the spatial arts. However, the creation of this film would not be possible without me freely using and modifying content created by others.
This video is made for educational purposes, out of love and desire to explore and share ideas shaping our built environment. It is not intended to be monetized or used for commercial purposes.
If you are a copyright holder and feel that your content hasn’t been used fairly in this film, please contact me at spatial.snowflakes@gmail.com so that we can rectify that.
If any ideas, remarks, questions or irrepressible frustrations arose within you as a result of watching this short film, please comment bellow or write to me at spatial.snowflakes@gmail.com
❄️Stay Spatial!❄️

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@TabulaRasaLanguages 6 ай бұрын

Le Corbusier seems to me an idealist ( new worlds need people like him ) while also disregarding the human part of it...a theocratic at the edge of being a tyrant. He would perpetuate hierarchical patterns for geometrical pleasant spaces ( something very conflicting and iterative in that vision tho )........Somehow I arrived here..... and found your amazing channel.....What a great editing, pace and script........Keep up!!!

@topridedrivefly 3 жыл бұрын

amazing channel, I wish you the success you deserve, sooner than you think it will come

@SpatialSnowflake 6 жыл бұрын

If you watched this until the end - you are so so Spatial ;)! What are your thoughts on Corbu? Egomaniac or the ultimate hero of the spatial arts? Talk to me, don't let me melt from the lack of attention...

@solveigaskvik9151 5 жыл бұрын

We love your video! We suddenly started thinking about him because of this music video (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJiIpthi1pnHcas.html), and then found your video, by complete accident! We watched it till the end, and we absolutely love how you so expertly designed the visuals to go with the narrative. Visuals and sound interact so so so well! Thank you for piquing our interest in the philosophy of arcitecture. We will now think about this some more, and maybe read a little more about the man and his ideas.. and then we can let you know if we discover any new insights..! Thank you so much for making this beautiful, well thought out film about this interesting man and his geometric philosophy :)! Solveig and Jim.

@doctorsartorius 4 жыл бұрын

He didn't care for the people living in these brutalist buildings. He only thought of the edifices themselves. I have no doubt he would never choose to live in his own creation.

@SpatialSnowflake 4 жыл бұрын

@@solveigaskvik9151 Somehow never got a notification that I had a comment here…well guys, your kind comment managed to make my day 8 months into the future 😊. Thank you so much for taking the time to write these thoughtful and encouraging words for me. So honored to hear that my little film might have made you want to learn more about Corbu’s ideas and sparked your curiosity about the existential dimension of the built environment. You also inspired me to read more about the Luník IX neighborhood (what a story...) Thank you once again and sorry I wasn't able to thank you earlier!

@solveigaskvik9151 4 жыл бұрын

@@SpatialSnowflake Wow! I never saw your message, either! Never really made a comment to anyone before on this thing..! Haha, well, great that you liked that we loved your video! I'll have to read more about that neighbourhood myself now :) Thank you for getting back, it was a weird day that time and your film made us very happy. Let me know if you make more! Make one about the Luník IX! :D (By the way, we had interesting thoughts and felt inspired by your film, but it's a complicated thing, so we never expressed them very well in writing here for you ;) )

@xavierdarcy1 3 жыл бұрын

brilliant video, love your animations!

@urmi5192 2 жыл бұрын

I don't usually comment on videos but this was so helpful, thank you so much.

@jiainsf 5 жыл бұрын

Seems to me he was a terribly stubborn idealist. He looks at a city as if it were nothing more than stacking blocks; his understanding seems to lack the organic growth of culture, values, and social connectedness which truly makes a city. The rigid forms he proposes are an architect's fantasy with geometrical shapes... nothing more. People desire more than just tall slabs of concrete. Well animated video.

@ahmetkemalgurel5730 2 жыл бұрын

please read his own writings, you will see that he is complete the opposite what you think

@pierrecaron8731 Жыл бұрын

@@ahmetkemalgurel5730 Well said.

@franckvermont1926 3 жыл бұрын

This way to build cities in the 50's and 60's is not just about le Corbusier influence but just because it is a cheap way to build habitations without caring too much about how bad is it to live in

@marchershman6095 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please let us know the location of your very last image of the apartment towers and the curved roadway in the foreground? Thank you.

@SpatialSnowflake 4 жыл бұрын

Just have to point out my silly typo at 0:32 - CorbusieR is missing an R 🙃…anyway, I uploaded a version with that corrected: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eJagd9WC2MXMmGg.html …to whom it may concern 😛

@johnwood8441 2 жыл бұрын

Have you anymore videos about architecture and urban planning or only six?

@CheeseBae 2 жыл бұрын

His designs were functional for their time, but ugly. There's a reason why the areas he wanted to demolish are still highly desirable while the places that look like his designs are just places people live when they can't afford places like old Paris. Modernists have always focused too much on function and completely ignored or dismissed everything else.

@Dispo030 Жыл бұрын

And one could argue that the city of his dreams isn't very functional. First of all it was designed around the automobile, today we know that was pure poison for cities. Also his designs lack a sense of space. So much was build to follow his ideas, very little aged well, few places are actually liked.