Jonathan Meades

Dedicated follower of fascism?

His first building was for the Soviets, so it might be more accurate to call this celebrated modernist a promiscuous tart - like all architects

Scapegoat for all of urban life’s ills: Le Corbusier, c.1950. Credit: POPPERFOTO/GETTY IMAGES

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