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Join Us in France Travel Podcast

Le Corbusier Architecture, Episode 139

Join Us in France Travel Podcast

Annie Sargent

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Join Us in France Travel Podcast

On today's show, Elyse and Annie bring you musings on Le Corbusier Architecture, how he became one of the pillars of French architecture, and some of the criticisms levied against him. Was he a genius or a tyrant? Hint: it doesn't have to be one or the other, he could be like you and me: a complicated person.

If you like this episode you should also check out episode 103 about Le Corbusier and the Plan Voisin and how Le Corbusier planned to raze the Marais neighborhood to make room for something out of a authoritarian nightmare. And if you want to see what came after Le Corbusier Architecture, check out Episode 42 Centre Georges Pompidou.

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0:00.0

On today's join us in France, the core busier architecture. the This is join us in France episode 139.

0:37.0

Bonjour, I'm Annie and today I bring you a conversation with Elise on

0:42.4

the court bus, one of the Titans of French architecture.

0:47.0

The shout-out today goes out to Heather Cox and Denise Autee,

0:52.0

who pledged to support the show on Patreon this week.

0:56.0

Thank you so much Heather and Denise and all the other listeners who support the show on Patreon, you are really making a difference and I hope

1:05.4

you know how much I appreciate your continued support. To support the show on

1:10.4

Patreon go to Patreon.com forward slash join us, P-A-T-R-E-O-N, join us without any spaces or dashes or anything. Thank you so much. If you like this

1:25.9

episode you should also check out the French architecture category on the left of

1:31.8

join us in France.com.

1:34.0

We've done 10 other episodes that had to do with architecture,

1:38.0

including episode number five on the architecture of Notre Dame

1:42.0

Cathedral in Paris,

1:44.0

episode 42 about the Saint George Pompidou, also in Paris,

1:49.0

episode 97 about Art Nouveau,

1:52.0

and episode 103 about the Plano Valoisin where the Kobusee proposed to raise the

2:00.4

Marie neighborhood in Paris to make room for something that looks like to me anyway a nightmare of authoritarian Utopia.

2:09.3

It's it's just sick and wrong. But as we'll see today, he also did some things that were much nicer than that.

2:19.0

And thankfully it didn't happen.

2:21.0

You know, what he wanted to do and what he got done are two separate things.

2:25.6

For show notes on this episode go to join us in France.com forward slash 139 the number 139.

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139.

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