ART/ARCHITECTURE - Le Corbusier

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  • Le Corbusier is perhaps the 20th century's most influential architect, responsible for persuading us of the merits of modern design on a grand scale. His work was at points hugely beautiful and accomplished, and at others, terrifying and extremely unhelpful. Our film explores Le Corbusier's mixed legacy, and what we might learn from it for the future.
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    “If the idea of being a ‘modern’ person and leading a ‘modern’ life still has an exciting ring to it, it’s at least in part down to the influence of an extraordinary Swiss architect Le Corbusier, who in the first half of the twentieth century wrote books, put up buildings and designed bits of furniture that conveyed the excitement, sleekness and glamour of the modern technological world. Le Corbusier began his career by attacking the architecture of the Victorian age - and contrasting it with what he saw as the beauty and intelligence of engineering. ‘Our engineers are healthy and virile, active and useful, balanced and happy in their work,’ he exclaimed in his polemical book, Towards a New Architecture (1923), while ‘our architects are disillusioned and unemployed, boastful or peevish. This is because there will soon be nothing more for them to do. We no longer have the money to erect historical souvenirs. At the same time, everyone needs to wash! Our engineers provide for these things and so they will be our builders.’...”
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  • @ree9487
    @ree9487 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    What a time to be alive! To see School of Life uploading again about philosophy and architecture💜

  • @LordProteus
    @LordProteus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    "Building taller buildings will solve overcrowding" he says, as if the Humans who live in those buildings will never leave the building... He actually didn't know what he was talking about in a lot of cases.

  • @seahawk124
    @seahawk124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +341

    "Well, now that he's (Le Corbusier) finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
    - Frank Lloyd Wright
    I sure hope a Frank Lloyd Wright video is in the works.

    • @aayushivasnik
      @aayushivasnik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lmao

    • @PeteofHartainia
      @PeteofHartainia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Both Frank and Corbu were terrible assholes. They're better ignored.

    • @edinbeg.
      @edinbeg. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@PeteofHartainia how come? They were some of the greatest architects this world has seen

    • @emiliebhowmik9131
      @emiliebhowmik9131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ahahahahha

  • @SirPerceval
    @SirPerceval 4 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    The man created the most soul crushing designs in existence. I would dread having to see, live or work in any of his buildings.

    • @matthewluck9077
      @matthewluck9077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      the importance of his buildings are the direction architecture took because of them. while some of his grander ideas may not have pinned out as hoped, the principles are being used todays to generate really functional and beautiful structures

    • @sammcgee8726
      @sammcgee8726 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@matthewluck9077 His philosophy was full of sophistry, though. He regularly says "we must" do this or that without explaining how to do so or why. He did not design homes, offices or cities, but, he admitted himself, machines for living, working, and being in. The thing is, humans are not machines, and thus do not do well in this construct. He didn't design for people. Rather, he expected people to conform to his design. His ideal efficiency was not human efficiency, but machine efficiency. An automated loom doesn't care what color the wallpaper is or even whether there is any. It doesn't care about privacy or comfort or edification. A human weaver does. He did not recognize this. His view was ultimately totalitarian. He wanted to tear down what was established and build his new "utopia," expecting all who live in his ideal cities to conform to his will. Rather than a visionary, he was a man of his time.
      Edited to fix a comma splice and to remove an unnecessary reference to Hitler and Stalin.

    • @rbell3505
      @rbell3505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You may never have seen his chapel at Ronchamp. He was capable of great poetry .

    • @manueltripero
      @manueltripero 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@rbell3505 I doubt I've ever seen such a hideous chapel (or any religious building), it's claustrophobic, little slabs of light that get dominated by concrete, all structured to create the illusion of chaos, while still maintaining a rigid structure, it's soul crushing.

    • @matthewluck9077
      @matthewluck9077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Christopher Caryotakis totally! i agree with what you’re saying. but you cannot argue against his importance in influencing today’s architecture, be it good or bad. our modern skyscrapers might not be quite what they are today without his free façade design principle. open floor plans may not be as widespread as they are today without his free plan concept. he radically standardized roof gardens, such a seemingly novel concept these days, in his designs. what would architecture be today without his influence? maybe better, maybe worse, but admittedly different

  • @helenadasilva9371
    @helenadasilva9371 4 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    "You can't find a person who are better to destroy the urban space, than a modernist" - Jan Gehl, one of the most influential urban theorist and designers.
    Modern architects was so caught up in the newest technology and mashines, that they forgot about the human factor to design.

    • @fadwaaltuwaijri4782
      @fadwaaltuwaijri4782 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly!

    • @krutibhavsar9534
      @krutibhavsar9534 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Indeed, but I don't completely agree. When I look at Kahn's architecture in my home-country, I feel deeply connected with my culture, and traditional roots of the culture, symbolically represented by the form, materials and design of the Kahn-architecture.
      To touch on the human part, I believe symmetry in Kahn's architecture isn't completely symmetrical, just like the human body, the feeling it evokes, is almost unexplainable because if a structure can make you feel roots and :being at home' and connected to your culture, then I think it's a strong point to consider here....

  • @Je.rone_
    @Je.rone_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    The only time i want Saturday school is if it's the school of life

  • @Torus2112
    @Torus2112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    I think his approach was sound, but as you said he didn't fully recognize the needs of human beings. It's all well and good to say you want to design a building or a neighbourhood purely around the practical needs of humans, but in order to do that properly you need to make sure you understand human needs and how to meet them. I've been inside many brutalist buildings that are very attractive and comfortable, and many that aren't. The difference, as far as I can tell, is the level of skill and respect for the human possessed by the people who built them.

    • @BradyDale
      @BradyDale 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Building tall buildings surrounded by huge patches of grass that lead only to car parks yields desoloate terrifying areas. Cities are only safe and fun when lots of people are walking about all the time, but he only wanted people to walk to their cars. This yields hellscapes.

    • @Torus2112
      @Torus2112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@BradyDale Exactly, I feel like if he had recognized the more intangible needs of people his designs would have been a lot more successful. Social spaces, services, culture, etc. are all necessary for a so-called "machine for living" to properly fill its intended purpose.

    • @BradyDale
      @BradyDale 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Torus2112 I guess I just don't get what you mean by "his approach" then. That was his whole thing. Like... do you mean his aesthetic? His aesthetic isn't what drove his urban planning vision tho.

    • @Torus2112
      @Torus2112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@BradyDale I mean that in theory taking a rational approach to the design of living spaces is sensical, all you have to do is find out what a human needs to live comfortably and sort of engineer the space around those needs rather that be guided by a more artistic type of vision as had been traditionally done. Therefore in my opinion the fact that people don't seem to like Le Corbusier's designs is the result of his own failure to engineer the spaces properly.

    • @toukyoumaster8734
      @toukyoumaster8734 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BradyDale If you want to see a successful example of his philosophy, then look to the city of Hong Kong. If you want a successful example of tradition meets simplicity, then look to the country of Japan, where simplicity is a part of their ideals.

  • @PaulSyng
    @PaulSyng 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I grew up in Chandigarh and lived there for over two decades and it's by far one of the most well-designed and beautiful places on earth!

    • @Rydertheninja
      @Rydertheninja 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is beautiful compared to other Indian cities. But in terms of architecture it's just dull

  • @LordProteus
    @LordProteus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    He had some interesting points, but I believe they are an example of a philosophical mind that lost it's sense of balance and became obsessed. Functionality and Efficiency are all well and good, but we shouldn't stop trying to make the world beautiful. Aesthetics and Culture are never irrelevant.

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If you want a future, then forget about beauty.

    • @LordProteus
      @LordProteus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@DacLMK Life would be wretched without beauty. Even nature has beauty. We would not live, we would simply exist.

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@LordProteus That's the whole point. We simply exist, we don't live. Beauty is a human concept that tries yo find meaning in objects that are natural, or manmade.

    • @yomuin5389
      @yomuin5389 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The dichotomy that "form follows function" implies can be resolved by realising that form is the function of art. Buildings are both art and structures we need. So the beauty needs to be balanced with all the other requirements. Things are ugly because they remind us of our messed op priorities. After watching this video I think the guy the guy didn't have completely the wrong idea. It's just that in a society that prioritises money over our wellbeing, it's bound to happen that people will not put the idea into practice the right way. Creating ugly buildings because we don't see beauty as relevant. If we change our ideas about what should really be at the centre of our lives, everything we produce will follow.
      Admittedly. Not sure if he himself understood that. And clearly the consequences of his ideas weren't always positive.

    • @dyfrigshandy
      @dyfrigshandy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@DacLMK says who? U? Who tf r u lmao

  • @SRV1o1
    @SRV1o1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    Livin in city made by him.. Chandigarh,India. Because of the vision he had. We dont have much traffic or pollution problem.

    • @bhaaratsharma6023
      @bhaaratsharma6023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Are you sure there is no traffic problem in Chandigarh? I was born and live in Chandigarh and the traffic just drives me nuts. Due to a very high number of cars per capita, the city roads are choked with traffic all the time. The only good thing is that the driving sense of the people of the city is much better than the people of other cities in India.

    • @bhaaratsharma6023
      @bhaaratsharma6023 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@harshitagrahari7281 stop spamming dude

    • @SRV1o1
      @SRV1o1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@bhaaratsharma6023 compared to other indian cities. Ofcourse you cannot compare it to western world, it will be just plain unfair with the population we have, there will be traffic everywhere but atleast during non peak hours, roads are quit empty. Ofcourse, during office hours whole india is stuck in traffic but atleast you have tree's shade to stand in😁

    • @paulinebunuan
      @paulinebunuan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      r/whoosh

    • @shrishchauhan3390
      @shrishchauhan3390 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @admiraliggz the last thing we want is an ill-informed westerner like you telling us about slaves.

  • @johnstelluto
    @johnstelluto 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    "One of the world's greatest architects but also one of the world's most disastrous urban designers"

  • @seewhydoubleu
    @seewhydoubleu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Sadly, his most beautiful contributions that your video cited - the furniture and domestic interiors - were in fact designed by his female peers, Charlotte Perriand and Eileen Gray. The women were almost forgotten by the male-centric architectural history narrative until rediscovery in recent years.

    • @seaslug7421
      @seaslug7421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Le Corbusier was a sexist. Not thinking that women could create beautiful design.

    • @dervmcauley4492
      @dervmcauley4492 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And roundly abused by Le Corbusier

    • @diegocolomes
      @diegocolomes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe a Le Corbusier-machine-central planning-dystopic centric and fanatic point of view in architecture...

    • @combatantezoteric2965
      @combatantezoteric2965 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Women shouldn't be allowed to talk

    • @Powerhaus88
      @Powerhaus88 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@seaslug7421 Ironic, considering what he only ever created was flaming dogshit.

  • @Nero-ox5tw
    @Nero-ox5tw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    His philosophy was so naive. He really had no idea just how important beauty is.

    • @camiloguzman1801
      @camiloguzman1801 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also he is the reminder of the moves of XIX and early XX century, the era of scientific positivism.

    • @jamesdb2139
      @jamesdb2139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      brutalism is beautiful

    • @Skipp376
      @Skipp376 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or he had a different sense of beauty than most. I for one find it beautiful, but I understand that many others don’t.

    • @knoxynyr87
      @knoxynyr87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But I think you need to understand and appreciate the importance of his philosophy. The push for “modern” architecture and the “less is more” approach was a springboard to what we create now and how we want to “break the box” that I believe Le Corbusier created. Just something to think about

    • @joen8529
      @joen8529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup, he was like a drunk crackpot in a small town bar spewing ludicrous idealist theories as if he’s the smartest man on the planet.

  • @Aoiraider
    @Aoiraider 4 ปีที่แล้ว +373

    I worked in an office building in Japan that was built in 1958 by a Japanese architect inspired by Lecourbusier. It was the most dreadful work place I could have possibly imagined. The dense, uninviting concrete was impossible to remodel or decorate, it had been designed in an age before computers so the layout made no sense. It was drafty, ugly and foreboding. One of the worst buildings I have had the displeasure of being in.

    • @mrwaldoful
      @mrwaldoful 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      were is be located

    • @Vagabund92
      @Vagabund92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He wanted modern efficiency and ended up with unsustainable architecture that doesn't meet modern needs...

    • @Ab_someone
      @Ab_someone 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree.

    • @laeihbvaljefhbvalejfhbv
      @laeihbvaljefhbvalejfhbv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Do you mind sharing the location of the building? I'm curious to see it xD
      Regardless, living in the United States reminds me just how boring cities can be with no good architecture. I'm often looking for trips to Mexico or Europe just to get the glamour of the baroque, gothic, art deco or beaux arts etc. Here in the states, utility and enterprise win over beauty and the arts.
      Just look at what they did to Penn Station in New York.

    • @starmanjesus5679
      @starmanjesus5679 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ‘a japanese architect inspired by’, it’s not made and conceived by le corbusier, stop it this is nonsense, you’re nonsense

  • @KannikCat
    @KannikCat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    As an architect it may be "sacrilege" to say this, but I'm very much not a fan of almost all of Corbu's work. Even beyond the 'towers in the park' urban planning mistake, I find his buildings lack any sense of refinement or delight. I love clean spare buildings -- Tadao Ando is one of my favs -- but they need a solid grasp of space and light to function, which most of Corbu's buildings seem to lack. Ronchamp is the only work of his that I'm enamored with (maybe La Tourette as well) and it's because there is a sense of space, refinement, and delight there.

  • @donkaveen
    @donkaveen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Use of "the architect" movie clips was brilliant idea. I love that movie. It took my entire 7years of architecture school to come to this conclusion about him. This is a must watch for archi students.

  • @TRH8765
    @TRH8765 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Really glad you’ve returned back to making videos on art and architecture and add to your range of videos in this category! Any more on philosophy and sociology also always a joy to listen to! Thank you!

  • @Dark0ui0ui
    @Dark0ui0ui 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    I had the "chance" to grew up in a private house designed by Le Corbusier (rue des Arts, Boulogne Billancourt, France).
    I was actually quite an awful design. The first floor was very dark with small large windows place at 1m80 height. Stairs was large and in concrete at the center of the building.
    He made a distopian vision come true and, with the help of the politician of his time, he is responsible of many of the consequences we have in the French banlieu. Parking poors far away from the center of the city, in places designed for robots to be stored.
    His work is in-human, ugly, non-functional, without emotions. Storage for robots.

  • @theschooloflifetv
    @theschooloflifetv  4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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    • @GurpreetKaur-xw8cn
      @GurpreetKaur-xw8cn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The School of Life 😊 very informative video... Thanks 🌸🙏

  • @justal4844
    @justal4844 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @SoL, it's nice to see you all returning to videos like this that provide variety to your channel. Inasmuch as we all(?) enjoy your mental health related content, mixing in history and arts is what attracted me to your pages in the beginning. Cheers!

  • @geelychee3690
    @geelychee3690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m reading your book The Architecture of Happiness right now for the second time and just got to the section where you talked about corbusier, and then this pops up in my recommended!!

  • @curiousworld7912
    @curiousworld7912 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    While I truly do understand what Corbusier and the Bauhaus were going for, it is cold and has never felt like 'humans' should inhabit their buildings. FL Wright also revolted against what he saw as the 'excesses' of the Victorians, but did it in a way that was beautiful - as did the Greene bros. and other Craftsman-style architects.

    • @jacoblevenson7934
      @jacoblevenson7934 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree with the above, yet I find wright a little soulless.

    • @markcharron
      @markcharron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm glad someone mentioned Frank Lloyd Wright... his homes and buildings are amazing and also very modernist, and go for millions. Meanwhile, any ugly old building you see that's a square white block, rusting away with stains and getting set in with weeds is usually Bauhaus or Corbusier inspired, given up on a long time ago as being no longer practical or attractive.

    • @thetimelapseguy8
      @thetimelapseguy8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And yet the excesses of victorian buildings make them the most admired architecture.

    • @curiousworld7912
      @curiousworld7912 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thetimelapseguy8 I agree; I love Victorian architecture. And if asked what I think the crowning achievement has been, it would be the great Gothic cathedrals. The thing about Wright or the Greene brothers is, they didn't sacrifice warmth and 'humanness' in their designs for function's sake, as I feel the Bauhaus and later, Brutalism, did.

    • @olsonskywalker8215
      @olsonskywalker8215 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@curiousworld7912 Gothic architecture is the -instagram filter- of buildings.... and also, who cares about your "feelings"?

  • @ayoubawadi2950
    @ayoubawadi2950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Antoni gaudi next

  • @Jonjooooo
    @Jonjooooo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Lovely episode. Le Corb wasn't perfect, but he was the spark who ignited the modernist revolution. Many of his better ideas continue to influence architecture and city planning today and we have him to thank for improving our quality of life. I was surprised you didn't mention his famous quote, that houses are "machines for living in". What a brilliant mind.

    • @AnkhAnanku
      @AnkhAnanku 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I like the one about poorer city dwellers being a “black clot of misery, of failure, of human garbage”
      He was a despicable creature.

    • @diegocolomes
      @diegocolomes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How can a brilliant mind produce so much ugliness? I don't see any other use of his hideous architecture than to build prisions, i. e., ugly torture places, places where to be miserable.

    • @combatantezoteric2965
      @combatantezoteric2965 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@diegocolomes beauty is subjective, with many exceptions of course. But I find his villa Savoya to be goodlooking ( I know it was a failure practically though ).

  • @gabopaz9693
    @gabopaz9693 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I sure hope this Chanel hace FLW’s video on the works, I absolutely love the style of these videos and I’m at awe of how such quality content can be free!

  • @sabbapixie
    @sabbapixie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Now I know who to blame for the type of architecture I truly despise. Thank you for profiling this influential artist who made indelible changes to our world.

  • @donovanreimer2324
    @donovanreimer2324 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video is an incredible, rather perfect quick bio. I’m so impressed.

  • @matcha.always
    @matcha.always 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Loving this! wouldn't mind more videos on architecture

  • @95GuitarMan13
    @95GuitarMan13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    YESSS! The world needs more SoL architecture videos, keep them coming please!

  • @amirmaroof9216
    @amirmaroof9216 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love these series on famous architects,gotta say i longed for them to be feautured here in inclusive explanatory video on the works of architect!

  • @aarongladstein2997
    @aarongladstein2997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As an aspiring architect who has read Towards an Architecture and studied a good chunk of his work, I can tell you that his ideas on space, light and architectural form moved the entire profession of architecture into the 20th century. His ideas about city planning seem horrific to many of you. But you must understand why he proposed those ideas. The European city in the early 1900s was filled with soot filled air, dark, smelly(due to horse manure) and therefore breeding grounds for disease. While he was posing the problem of the city for himself he selected those issues as top priority to be solved. Hence his solution for tall skyscrapers spread apart surrounded by trees and parks.
    As for his villas, the video didn't give them justice but they too, like his most popular book, were and still are architectural masterpieces that architects today can still pull ideas from. The way they arrange space, and dealt with issues of composition like paintings do. Le corbusier after all was also a painter who invented his own art style derived from his criticism of cubism. Which he called purism.
    Also to discuss the reinforced concrete, Le corb was considered a master with reinforced concrete. he was one of the first to advocate for its use. He held that belief because one of his life long goals was to solve the issue of affordable housing that would be comfortable for the masses. Reinforced concrete was and still is the cheapest and most durable way to build. That allowed him to produce buildings for significantly less cost than most other buildings at the time.

  • @rilke3266
    @rilke3266 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Functionality is important, but humans also need beauty. We need things that inspire us to strive to be greater.

    • @superw4r806
      @superw4r806 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thus the importance of sculptures. The buildings themselves dont need to be everything.

  • @purneshdevnikhanj
    @purneshdevnikhanj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How can you not talk about Chandigarh and label him disastrous? The city has been a great example of urban design. Growing up and living here as an architect I know why it works! Not that it is perfect but he went into excruciating detail to try and safeguard the future of the city as he knew politicians could mess it up. The kind of rules he made talk volume of his analysis of psychological understanding. He did make mistakes but he was still far ahead of his time in Urban design too!

  • @amanagen25
    @amanagen25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I live in a city shaped by his vision. “Maison Domino”, Athens. A concrete Jungle. Awful.

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Skopje, post 1963 earthquake, is built in his vision, and I've gotta say I like it. But our previous government decided to "antiquities" our city (in the process angering our neighbors) and ruined the city forever.

  • @jackrumery7208
    @jackrumery7208 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    You should do one of these with Frank Lloyd Wright!

  • @gorkemgulan
    @gorkemgulan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nooooooo wayyyyyy. I was just searching him and now a school or life video reminder ❤️

  • @ayush8650
    @ayush8650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Chandigarh folks where are you at ?

  • @user-yu8rn2im8m
    @user-yu8rn2im8m ปีที่แล้ว +4

    to love his architecture ... one has to possess concept mastery and formal education . he is the 'father' of modern architecture .. a well deserved title .

  • @BrentLagerman
    @BrentLagerman ปีที่แล้ว

    what a great summary, well written and narrated, cheers guys!

  • @amostramel2778
    @amostramel2778 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You should make one on Tadao Ando!

  • @gersonargueta3470
    @gersonargueta3470 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So this is the guy that made most cities look souless and grey?

  • @dannysze8183
    @dannysze8183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    le corbusier is a great architect. his works is so much more significant than his words.

  • @lomigreen
    @lomigreen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I believe that the man gave us Walmart, Target,and Costco.

  • @ChrstphreCampbell
    @ChrstphreCampbell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    in olden times, a building was built by hundreds or thousands of talented artists, but nowadays, every architect wants 100% credit for their buildings.

  • @arelivalentin9587
    @arelivalentin9587 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This brings me back to AP Art History

  • @gallaxian
    @gallaxian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The interior at 6:40 is really striking. I like some of his furniture, too. But his larger structures leave me cold. I'm agree with TSOL's verdict that Le Corbusier is a genius with a mixed legacy.

  • @MrShizzr
    @MrShizzr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    really glad you brought back the culture videos! Super interesting content! 🙂

    • @gj9933
      @gj9933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes i like this content too

  • @Kilroyan
    @Kilroyan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The unfortunate result of an architect's grand ideas eclipsing the people he is building for. Would love an episode on Tadao Ando, if you haven't already covered him!

  • @95GuitarMan13
    @95GuitarMan13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Corbu was as bad an architect as he was a urban planner IMO, he is remembered for his ideas (or rather, the ideas that he popularized) and his powers of persuasion more than for his designs.
    I would love to see a video on Bucky Fuller, I think he was what Corbu only claimed to be.
    Great video!

  • @BradyDale
    @BradyDale 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I was very worried that you were going to say something good about his approach to urban design. Much relieved. He's one of the worst things to happen to the world.

  • @keesjanhoeksema9575
    @keesjanhoeksema9575 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good that You showthis side of “The Silver Prince”!
    He is seen As A groundbreaking designer that changed architecture from medieval to modern industrial, I never liked the way he bullied his ideas on others,
    He is probably best remembered by the classic evergreen Le Corbusier chaise longue X27 LC4 which was actually A design from one of his brilliant aprentices Charlotte Perriand,
    Eileen Gray Another female architect and designer of the Bibendum chair, and the E-1027 side table, was very cross with LC for painting murals on her own designed famous E-1027 Villa without telling or asking her, She wanted him ‘the Silver Prince’ ambassador for undecorated white interiors to remove these murals from her villa, But he refused and made sure trough her ex-boyfriend that they would stay! even guarding the villa by moving into the neighborhood keeping in touch with the new owners convincing them not to remove his murals?
    What A freakish megalomaniac, I’m glad he did not succeed in totally destroying Europes city-centers with concrete jungles! (RAF Bomber command, USAAF and the Luftwaffe almost succeeded at that duringWWII)
    Still this guy is A major subject in art schools art-history....

  • @mimundovl4ever
    @mimundovl4ever 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love all This architecture videos.

  • @xSimranGuptax
    @xSimranGuptax 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    He designed Chandigarh one of the most well planned cities in India and it’s truly beautiful and EXTREMELY different from the other unplanned cities of India.

    • @GurpreetKaur-xw8cn
      @GurpreetKaur-xw8cn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes, My beautiful city Chandigarh... 💕

    • @JonOsterman59
      @JonOsterman59 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He wasn't the only creator though. He took over earlier plans and was part of a team of 3 architects. That most likely saved Chandigarh from his worst ideas

    • @amulyamishra5745
      @amulyamishra5745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's beautiful only *comparatively*
      Though, he planned it to stand against most urban problems, however, a bit of classical beauty won't do any harm.

    • @ljubov1783
      @ljubov1783 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was a disastrous architect.
      I have been to Chandigarh decent people, clean city and you have so many trees & parks but there is too much traffic like in rest of Indian cities.
      No offense but all plans are doomed to fail considering the size of population in india.

    • @xSimranGuptax
      @xSimranGuptax 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      AMULYA MISHRA I think beauty depends on one’s perspective. For me, someone who’s lived there for years, it is an extremely beautiful city because of how clean, green and peaceful it feels and looks. And I honestly cannot say that for most Indian cities so even comparatively it is beautiful yes!

  • @daniellete9049
    @daniellete9049 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Le Corbusier is the single most influential architect of all time. This was a great video about his early stage of design. I’m loving this architecture series.

    • @juliuscoleslaw4276
      @juliuscoleslaw4276 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely not the most influential, but yes, influential beyond anyone in recent history

  • @MClaudeW
    @MClaudeW 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Preface: "we cant afford nice buildings anymore"
    Content: "no extravegances, no conspicuous expense" "its great"

  • @TheMalkavian101
    @TheMalkavian101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I think this video is a bit unfair to him, it doesn't mention how he was one of the main pioneers of the architectural revolution that inspired the whole future of the architectural design and philosophy (how can you not talk about Villa Savoye?), and doesn't mention his amazing success with planning the city of Chandigarh.

    • @Jonjooooo
      @Jonjooooo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree, no mention of the Villa Savoye either, his most famous and influential building that inspired a revolution in architecture.

    • @RossoBianco1895
      @RossoBianco1895 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Jonjooooo Yep, Villa Savoye should have been another example of bad architecture.

    • @BradyDale
      @BradyDale 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fine then also mention Brasilia

    • @remsentosa
      @remsentosa 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah so unfair he was such a great guy they didn't even mention he wanted to destroy the right bank of Paris with his Plan Voisin, destroy the old gothic cathedrals. They even forgot to mention he was such a virulent antisemite and nazi admirer.
      What a same.

  • @cassiuscyparissus5567
    @cassiuscyparissus5567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Because of le corbusier millions of people have ugly homes. But thanks to le corbusier, millions of people have homes

  • @mukulsinghparmar854
    @mukulsinghparmar854 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Le corbuiser was cheif designer of 'Chandigarh' also known as' City beautiful 'where I am living . We also Le corbuiser centre located in sector-19 Madhya marga. I see it everyday in my way to college. Most of foreigners think that slums of Mumbai repersent whole India but that's not true. Trust me visit only one time Chandigarh your thinking towards India will be changed.

  • @hamzasaleem7017
    @hamzasaleem7017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    5:43 plot twist

  • @sndrb1336
    @sndrb1336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ville radieuse was an affront on humanity.

  • @l-y-d-s
    @l-y-d-s 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    He had zero respect for historical architecture or historical layouts of cities but he was a master form-maker and incredible talent. His legacy was a mixed bag which I appreciate that this video captures. He was also a misogynist but so were many men of that time. I love many of his projects: Church of Saint-Pierre, Notre Dame du Ronchamp, Villa Savoye, Pavillon Le Corbusier, Villa Roche, and Convent of La Tourette because they all expressed original ideas about form.

  • @alipourchamani2553
    @alipourchamani2553 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    so good

  • @nubianfx
    @nubianfx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As part of my french enrichment i studies the life and work of Le Corbusier. It was the first time my eyes were opened to the power and depth of architecture. I had the pleasure of going to see La Cite Radieuse and Notre Dame Du Haut. x

  • @22Piroko
    @22Piroko 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember going to his house outside Paris when I was six. I was amazed at how it hadn’t dated, and still looked modern. I think it was a big influence on me, I think and I became a designer. I was surprised to learn about how terrible he was at urban design

  • @marcoaslan
    @marcoaslan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It seems like we were born in the midst of an argument that spans centuries... and we are trying to gather the pieces to make sense of this whole modernism mess (now postmodernism). The desire to get rid of the past and ignite a new more beautiful prosperous future seems to have made us lonelier and narcissistic.

    • @amirmaroof9216
      @amirmaroof9216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think as modern movement reached its zenith in 40s,50s it was the time modernist were able to spot their mistakes and turned many of their once obsolete naive looking designs into some of the most beautiful architecture in terms of look and practicality,mid century modern however it was in reality,for me it's far superior than most of post modern buildings directed and built by Venturi and his so called his followers

  • @JoseDelacruz-wo7ne
    @JoseDelacruz-wo7ne 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow 😮

  • @PeteofHartainia
    @PeteofHartainia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Alot of architects consider him to have brought sheer destruction to the fabric of cities and culture. He divided people, made them drive cars forever between places, demolished culturally significant and historic buildings, and took away gathering places for people to socialize. Please don't praise Corbu, he did far more harm than good to the culture of the world.

  • @BboyTK0
    @BboyTK0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "What is this, a skyscraper for ants? It needs to be at least..three times bigger than this!"
    - Le Corbusier, New York City 1935

  • @pancholopezpaz
    @pancholopezpaz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    great video! theanks TSoL. I grew up in Sucre in southern Bolivia, a city now protected by UNESCO as a world heritage. The city centre is beautiful because is well preserved, its colonial architecture makes public life so nice. The city is also built to create a lot of community, there is so much community that people complain they want privacy.

  • @Max-yn9cc
    @Max-yn9cc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I'm cringing just from what this guy's thought plan was.

  • @nguyenphuongquynh5603
    @nguyenphuongquynh5603 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love to have subtitle, btw love this video

  • @jordan22031991
    @jordan22031991 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    He and his help an Indian Engineer P L Verma created the city of Chandigarh, India and it still stands at the epitome of all the major cities in the country.

  • @AdamantSeraph
    @AdamantSeraph 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good clip

  • @raphaelseve3439
    @raphaelseve3439 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in an area where we have a lot of his creations such as a very soecual church in St Etienne, France

  • @LightwaterFilms
    @LightwaterFilms 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:41 where are these images from?

  • @ArihantChawla
    @ArihantChawla 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a resident of Chandigarh, the city he planned; I really appreciate this video. His monarch-ist influences show in in the conformist architecture he did. He was a good architect. But like every monarchist commissioned by the King, he had to conceal his own rebellious nature. And that's what all these uniform sectors are about. They inspire you to rebel, that is his Modus Operandi.

    • @ejhdbegbeidishdj9358
      @ejhdbegbeidishdj9358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why tf are y’all spamming the comments with Chandigarh, it’s not that deep lmao. Hella excited for no reason.

  • @anshumandwivedi1050
    @anshumandwivedi1050 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    can anyone tell me which building interior shots at 6:30 to 6:39

  • @margonoorh9013
    @margonoorh9013 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please look at Chandigarh, India
    He designed that city (kudos to the government for the future maintenance and additions) which is known as city beautiful.

  • @souspoid9841
    @souspoid9841 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Any chance of getting a video on Gaudi from the school of life?

  • @ayoubawadi2950
    @ayoubawadi2950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    More architecture

  • @HowellConsultations
    @HowellConsultations 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If you are reading this, may you attract everything you’ve been patiently waiting for & be passionate to pursue it whole-heartedly. It will naturally flow into your life when you are ready to receive it. Hope our channel helps you on your journey 🙏

  • @DissectArchitecture
    @DissectArchitecture 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love Corbu!

  • @Uttam_Kumar_Jana
    @Uttam_Kumar_Jana ปีที่แล้ว

    If everyone had the money, people would combine the best of modern technologies and combine it with the most decorative art work ever. Most sane people don't like to abandon one aspect completely, so they get both utility tech and satisfying beauty for themselves,according to their budget .

  • @jonizajmi9992
    @jonizajmi9992 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please do make a video about Louis Kahn too!

  • @acuerdox
    @acuerdox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it looks like a dessert, instead of walking I ran hopping to find some familiar sanctuary

  • @user-kg2zb3ml7j
    @user-kg2zb3ml7j 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hi, can you please do a video on how "youth" or achieving everything when one is young is glorified so much in our age, whereas it is actually in one's later life that one is able to understand and actually find where one's heart lies. In youth, very few of us are able to do that because of limited experience, and also because objectivity is hard to develop.
    Also, keep putting up meaningful videos❤

  • @Ennio444
    @Ennio444 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very round and sound description of a controversial figure. Well done, I'm subscribing to this channel.

  • @mrpeel3239
    @mrpeel3239 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Which buildings at 4:00?

  • @jeremyhaines4481
    @jeremyhaines4481 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is very interesting and informative
    I have some Books 📚 about le Corbusier

  • @thearchitectproject9403
    @thearchitectproject9403 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everyone needs to watch Play Time. It's a tasteful commentary on Modernism and is something only architects would find humour in.

  • @frogthesystem
    @frogthesystem 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’d love to see a video about Mexican architect Luis Barragán.

  • @glydiator090
    @glydiator090 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    hey! how are you? can I ask you guys to make lectures/videos on styles of architecture? classical, baroque, neo-classical etc? Please?

  • @rosebonner524
    @rosebonner524 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    red road...one of the best films ever

  • @mi12no
    @mi12no 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:30 "The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning" is actually from 1929, not 1925 or 1995.

  • @yashrathore3609
    @yashrathore3609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He is an important architect of Chandigarh, India

    • @Ashwekar
      @Ashwekar 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      City planner of chandigarh

  • @akshitpuri7033
    @akshitpuri7033 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Chandigarh, the city built by Le Corbusier in India is a city filled with trees and gardens. All the buildings are only 3 story high which is quite contrary to what is said in the video.

  • @DiazThumb
    @DiazThumb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    More architects/ architecture content, please!

  • @JapGujral2000
    @JapGujral2000 หลายเดือนก่อน

    After visiting Chandigarh I don't think he was a disastrous urban designer

  • @jjjames4484
    @jjjames4484 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I found this to be an oversimplistic aproximation of the ontologic paradigm that ruled the design principles which architects such as Le Corbusier follow.

  • @leonardso1258
    @leonardso1258 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Contrary to his dislike of ornamentation his works of architecture are surprisingly abundant with decorative features.