The most famous architect you've never actually met — worshipped, controversial, and absolutely unignorable.
Making a documentary on Le Corbusier is not easy, because he is undoubtedly the architect most familiar to the general public but also the most unknown. If most people know his great achievements, such as the Cité radieuse of Marseille, the pavilions of the Cité universitaire de Paris or the Tourettes convent, many are unaware of his works in Moscow, Rio de Janeiro or Chandigarh. Roy Oppenheim pays a vibrant tribute to Corbusier, dismissing the criticisms and darker facets of the character. It presents the career of this pioneering architect, as well as his thinking, the essential principle of which was aimed at the development of human beings and the balance of society. Light, space and greenery are integrated into his large futuristic cities, because according to him the eyes of the inhabitants should be drawn into the distance and not into their neighbor's bathroom.
Cinematography
Breathtaking tracking shots through Corbusier's geometric sacred spaces
Editing
Rapid-fire montage of global projects — 29 minutes, zero fat
Director
Roy Oppenheim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Cité radieuse' in Marseille still houses residents who defend Corbusier's vision — and others who curse the leaking concrete and weird acoustics.
This 1967 doc was made while Corbusier was still alive (he died in '65), making it essentially authorized propaganda — the family-approved version.
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