Le Corbusier
Overview
Born in 1887, Le Corbusier was an influential Modernist Swiss/French architect who advocated for the creation of cities of tall, plain and modern skyscrapers, isolated in a park-like setting and surrounded by superhighways. He was an advocate of the automobile, whose ideas influenced the design of public housing in the United States and Europe. His approach has criticized as being unsupportive of the complicated transactions that make cities vital, and as being unfriendly to pedestrians. He once advocated the razing of a large section of Paris for sixty-story buildings.