Ville Radieuse: Le Corbusier's Functionalist Plan for a Utopian "Radiant City" - 99% Invisible
Designed in the 1920s by Le Corbusier, one of Modernism’s most influential architects, the “Radiant City” was to be a linear and ordered metropolis of the future. It was ambitious, a blueprint not only for a more rational urban environment but also for radical social reform. The layout of Corbu’s ideal city was abstractly inspired
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Leave a Comment Designed in the 1920s by Le Corbusier , one of Modernism’s most influential architects, the “Radiant City” was to be a linear and ordered metropolis of the future. It was ambitious, a blueprint not only for a more rational urban environment but also for radical social reform. The layout of Corbu’s ideal city was abstractly inspired by the arrangement and functions of the human body. Like a living organism, it consisted of organized parts that would work together as a whole. Corbu’s approach to his visionary Ville
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