Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited October 15, 2015 by aporrox Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited PARIS — Was the paradigm-changing architect known as Le Corbusier a fascist-leaning ideologue whose plans for garden cities were inspired by totalitarian ideals, or a humanist who wanted to improve people’s living conditions — a political naïf who, like many architects, was eager to work with almost any regime that would let him build?