Le Corbusier Interview

Interview with architect Le Corbusier (in English)

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[Carlos Lima]

I agree with Le Corbu in principle, however ordinary people in government bureaucracies took parts of his ideas and didn't execute them well. It's a shame that so many people have a low opinion of him when in fact it was the imitators that ruined his vision and that of modernism as a whole.

[spactick]

Great architect, but something got lost in the translation. His architectural heirs have scarred the landscape of large cities all over the world. It would be a service to humanity if they started dynamiting ASAP. We could use the concrete.

[Stefan Leijon]

Sorry, I put this together 5 years ago, and I can't remember where I found it.

If anyone finds it, feel free to post a comment with the info and I'll add a link in the description.

[mieolise]

Did you find the source? I have been searching all over, but doesn´t find it online, where would be a good place to look for the source? RIBA libary, Is there a way one can contact BBC archives?

[TheBigdoods]

should have gone to specsavers

[patloonecowboy]

Hi. Can you tell me where you sourced this audio interview?

[swiggsoclock]

Good architect; terrible urban-planner.

[iampeeay01]

He pionered modernism in architecture and laid the foundation for the international style. I love his design concepts. I adore this man for being so talented.

[John Burman]

He was still 'the' God of architecture when I was a student in the 1960,s. In London this type of high rise council housing destroyed any sense of community. Most people prefer a backyard that is private and a communal street in the front - this works. They like to be connected to the earth, not living in the sky. He was a great designer but a poor judge of what made urban life tolerable. Communistic notions of "mass habitation"are at last discredited.

[spactick]

I personally feel that ultimately his "large scale" architecture failed. And it failed miserably, The legacy of which scars the skyline of most major cities.

[josalgarcia]

So what I'm getting out of this video is that when this interview was done he was 71 yrs old. Everything else he says only he understands.