Editing Le Corbusier (section)

== Controversies ==
There is debate over the apparently variable or contradictory nature of Le Corbusier's political views.<ref name="simone 2">{{Cite journal |last=Brott |first=Simone |date=8 December 2017 |title=The Le Corbusier Scandal, or, was Le Corbusier a Fascist? |journal=Fascism |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=196–227 |doi=10.1163/22116257-00602003 |issn=2211-6249|doi-access=free }}</ref> In the 1920s, he co-founded and contributed articles about urbanism to the fascist journals ''Plans'', ''Prélude'' and ''L'Homme Réel''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brott|first=Simone|date=2013|title=In the Shadow of the Enlightenment Le Corbusier, Le Faisceau and Georges Valois|journal=Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand|volume=2|issue=30|pages=777–789|url=http://eprints.qut.edu.au/63644/|quote="his contribution to three fascist revues: Plans, Prélude and L'Homme Réel"}}</ref><ref name="simone 2"/> He also penned pieces in favour of [[Nazism#Racial theories and antisemitism|Nazi antisemitism]] for those journals, as well as "hateful editorials".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11543431/Le-Corbusier-was-militant-fascist-two-new-books-on-French-architect-claim.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11543431/Le-Corbusier-was-militant-fascist-two-new-books-on-French-architect-claim.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Le Corbusier was 'militant fascist', two new books on French architect claim |last=Samuel |first=Henry |date=16 April 2015 |quote="Mr Jarcy said that in "Plans" Le Corbusier wrote in support of Nazi anti-Semitism and in "Prelude" co-wrote "hateful editorials"}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Between 1925 and 1928, Le Corbusier had connections to [[Le Faisceau]], a short-lived French fascist party led by [[Georges Valois]]. (Valois later became an anti-fascist.)<ref>After becoming a wartime [[french resistance|resistance]] fighter, Georges Valois was arrested and died in a Nazi concentration camp.</ref> Le Corbusier knew another former member of Faisceau, [[Hubert Lagardelle]], a former labor leader and [[syndicalist]] who had become disaffected with the political left. In 1934, after Lagardelle had obtained a position at the French embassy in Rome, he arranged for Le Corbusier to lecture on architecture in Italy. Lagardelle later served as minister of labor in the pro-Axis [[Vichy France|Vichy]] regime. While Le Corbusier sought commissions from the Vichy regime, particularly the redesign of [[Marseille]] after its Jewish population had been forcefully removed,<ref name="simone 2" /> he was unsuccessful, and the only appointment he received from it was membership of a committee studying urbanism.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} [[Alexis Carrel]], a [[eugenicist]] surgeon, appointed Le Corbusier to the Department of Bio-Sociology of the ''Foundation for the Study of Human Problems'', an institute promoting eugenics policies under the Vichy regime.<ref name="simone 2" />

Le Corbusier has been accused of antisemitism. He wrote to his mother in October 1940, as the Vichy government enacted [[Vichy anti-Jewish legislation|anti-Jewish laws]]: "The Jews are having a bad time. I occasionally feel sorry. But it appears their blind lust for money has rotted the country." He was also accused of belittling the Muslim population of Algeria, then part of France. When Le Corbusier proposed a plan for the rebuilding of Algiers, he condemned the existing housing for European Algerians, complaining that it was inferior to that inhabited by indigenous Algerians: "the civilized live like rats in holes" while "the barbarians live in solitude, in well-being."<ref name=celik>{{cite book|last=Celik|first=Zeynep|title=Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French Rule|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|date=28 July 1997|page=4|isbn=978-0-520-20457-7}}</ref> His plan for rebuilding Algiers was rejected, and thereafter Le Corbusier mostly avoided politics.<ref>{{cite book|last=Antliff|first=Mark |title=Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ADTdniFtnuwC|year=2007|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-9047-3}}</ref>