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  • The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow
  • Written by: Anthony Flint
  • Narrated by: Mel Foster
  • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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From the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect of the 20th century. Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le Corbusier - a man who invented new ways of building and thinking. Modern Man is a penetrating psychological portrait of a true genius and constant self-inventor, as well as a sweeping tale filled with exotic locales, sex, and celebrity (he was a lover of Josephine Baker), and high-stakes projects. In Flint's telling, Corbusier isn't just the grandfather of modern architecture but a man who sought to remake the world according to his vision, dispelling the Victorian style and replacing it with something never seen before. His legacy remains controversial today, as the world grapples with how to house its skyrocketing urban population and the cult of the "starchitect" continues to grow.

Modern Man is for listeners fascinated by the complex personal lives and outsized visions of both groundbreaking artists and dazzling, charismatic innovators like Steve Jobs.
©2014 Anthony Flint (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
Art & Literature Professionals & Academics Architecture Arts & Entertainment 20th Century
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Interesting biography, not great narration

The biography was quite good. For an architect, it offered up aspects of Corbusier's life that you would not get from other sources easily. In architecture school Corb tends to be given the hagiography treatment, and in planning and social circles, vilified for his influence on 20th urban planning. This approaches the good and bad in equal measure, and also delves into his troubling search for work from any and all political regimes, including the Vichy government during the second world war, the Soviets earlier on. It explores his self mythologizing, his relationship to his parents and family who provided early and continuing support, his arcane and sometimes bizarre treatment of women including his wife and Eileen Grey. Well worth the story.

The audio was however poor. Lot's of mispronunciations of names and places.

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