No other 20th-century architect is loved and hated more than Le Corbusier.
The Swiss-born French designer, who died in 1965 at age 77, envisioned utopian cities with high-rise towers surrounded by vast parks. He conceived elegant Modernist villas as “machines for living.” His leather and tubular steel furniture, still in production, is sleek, sexy and [...]

MORE than 40 years after he drowned off a remote beach in the south of France, Le Corbusier remains a transcendent force. Even if some blame him for the modern city’s greatest sins, from the steamrolling of historical neighborhoods to a stultifying emphasis on function, he is indisputably the most influential architect of the past [...]