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Le Corbusier was ’militant fascist’, two new books on French architect claim
United Kingdom Architecture News - Apr 20, 2015 - 22:13 2989 views
Swiss-French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier Photography: Stfho/AFP/Getty Images
Controversy erupts in France over books depicting Le Corbusier, pioneer of the modern movement in architecture, as an out and out fascist who had an office in Vichy, seat of the Nazi puppet government in France.
France's best-known 20th century architect, Le Corbusier, was a "militant fascist" who was far more anti-Semitic and a fan of Hitler than previously thought, two new books reveal. The unsettling disclosures about the links of one of the world's most famous modern architects to France's wartime collaborationist Vichy regime have been released just ahead of a major Paris exhibition of his work. It has long been known that Le Corbusier, famed for his revolutionary concrete creations, including a housing project in Marseille called La Cité Radieuse, had some ties to France's collaborationist regime under Field Marshal Philippe Pétain......Continue Reading
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