The thing about the Voisin plan for rebuilding Paris that everyone is so appalled about is that at the time, nobody had any plumbing. The toilets were holes in the ground in the back yard. People were dying of TB and other diseases like flies, it was the filthiest city in Europe. Other parts of Paris had been completely rebuilt by Baron Hausmann just 50 years before with rather satisfactory results, so there was precedent. The Voisin plan was truly a breath of fresh air and fresh water in what was a fetid death trap. In the end, Paris introduced plumbing house by house, block by block, over the next 50 years, slowly and painfully. Obviously the paris we have today is a lot nicer, but we should not lose sight of the circumstances at the time. (And Corb never said less is more, that was Mies)
Have a look at this paper and see what France was like at the time. I am not saying they should have built the Voisin Plan, I am just saying we have to understand what people were dealing with. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667596
You had me at "Le Corbusier + horrible"
İ like the first picture a lot actually -- lots of green! And a demystifying expression of the clash between modern society and nature as such.
The thing about the Voisin plan for rebuilding Paris that everyone is so appalled about is that at the time, nobody had any plumbing. The toilets were holes in the ground in the back yard. People were dying of TB and other diseases like flies, it was the filthiest city in Europe. Other parts of Paris had been completely rebuilt by Baron Hausmann just 50 years before with rather satisfactory results, so there was precedent. The Voisin plan was truly a breath of fresh air and fresh water in what was a fetid death trap. In the end, Paris introduced plumbing house by house, block by block, over the next 50 years, slowly and painfully. Obviously the paris we have today is a lot nicer, but we should not lose sight of the circumstances at the time. (And Corb never said less is more, that was Mies)
Have a look at this paper and see what France was like at the time. I am not saying they should have built the Voisin Plan, I am just saying we have to understand what people were dealing with. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667596