Le Corbusier at MoMA: A love/hate relationship

NEW YORK --Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, the architect who renamed himself Le Corbusier, was blessed when it came to his formation as a thinker, designer and theorist of the modern world. He came from Switzerland, the land of watchmakers, and grew up in a region that was both remote and beautiful, but no backwater. He traveled extensively as a young man, absorbing ideas from both the north and south of Europe, and from its "edge" zones, including the east, where the clash and cohabitation of civil...