...Dave Tell The Modulor was a tape measure–style tool created by Le Corbusier in the 1940s to govern the distribution of objects in space. When he first conceived of the Modulor, Le Corbusier was a bureaucrat working in the fascist regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain. Six years later, the same tool...

...Figure 8 Le Corbusier, “Modulor,” 1955. © FLC/ADAGP, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2016 ...

... “Manifesto of Functional Architecture.” And in 1929, Le Corbusier’s meteoric arrival in Rio shook the very foundations of previous architectural paradigms. During the 1930s, Getúlio Vargas rose to power in a revolutionary struggle that left...

...Figure 3 Photographs published by the sociologist Philippe Boudon (1969 : 154) of Le Corbusier’s housing project in Pessac, upon completion in 1927 (top) and in 1967 (bottom), showing various alterations by inhabitants ...

... in the United States under Walter Gropius and Buckminster Fuller or, in the case of Doshi, in London, where this influence was directly honed by working with Le Corbusier and later Louis Kahn. However, it must be noted that even during the colonial period, indigenous industrial capitalists who formed...

... the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, working under Pétain’s fascist regime, created The Modulor, a tape measure–like tool meant to help make sense of how objects were distributed throughout spaces. Tell traces the movement of this technology and way of knowing as it encounters different political...

.... Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Moder- nity in Postcolonial India. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Price, Richard. 2002. First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

... of Japanese architects studying Hong Kong’s urban space focused precisely on this issue of hyperdensity, and contrasted two ways of dealing with it.’9 One way is suggested by modernist ideas of town planning derived from Le Corbusier’s vision...

... to the problem of clutter and the emphasis early twentieth- century modern architects like Le Corbusier or Bauhaus director Gropius put on clean minimalist spaces and efficient ratio- nal designs modeled on industrial concepts. As Le Corbusier...

..., eschewing finally the “dream-city” of le Corbusier and others.4 But surely the relationship between cities and people, buildings and bodies has 4. Rem Koolhaas and Sanford Kwinter, Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students (New York...

... the Westernized aspirations for the nuclear family and found their expression in “comfortable, simple and plain cubic” architecture (Le Corbusier’s ideas were a source of inspiration for a whole generation of Turkish architects throughout the 1930s...

..., modernism, and Le Corbusier’s esprit nouveau. Says Chipkin, most technological innovations were experimented with at one point or the other in Johannesburg: “prefabricated iron-fronted shop buildings, barrel-vaulted arcades with prismatic glass...

.... Looking at this seeming simultaneous wasteland and wild frontier of digital speculation, we see vast towers built as some parody of Le Corbusier’s “City of Tomorrow.” We should ask ourselves why — if the infrastructure could gener- ate any...