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Radiant City

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I really wanted to do something differnt, so I set about looking for new material and ideas and came across the Modernsit period of architecture, this piece is a response to it. The tower blocks are a replica of those designed by the architect 'Le Corbusier".

Tools: Illustrator Cs2
Time: 3 days


Extract from Time 100

"There were to be no more congested streets and sidewalks, no more bustling public squares, no more untidy neighborhoods. People would live in hygienic, regimented high-rise towers, set far apart in a parklike landscape."

"Le Corbusier called it La Ville Radieuse, the Radiant City. Despite the poetic title, his urban vision was authoritarian, inflexible and simplistic. Wherever it was tried — in Chandigarh by Le Corbusier himself or in Brasilia by his followers — it failed. Standardization proved inhuman and disorienting. The open spaces were inhospitable; the bureaucratically imposed plan, socially destructive."
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