Modern architecture and urban design are such a disaster. If any single person is responsible its probably him. Overly intellectual approaches that are striking on paper, sometimes also striking when realized, but not livable and don't age well.
Once they have lived inside each others creations for a decade they would vote on them.
Only then would the archetypes be communicated to the rest of unsuspecting world.
If you think there's any single person to blame, it's whoever blindly applied his ideas where it didn't belong.
I believe we're better off with a variety of ideas, it's then up to each city to make the best of it.
Which it achieved.
But its role in society is far more important than art. Its the permanent backdrop in which we experience life. Its the shape of the petri dish on which our colony grows.
Architects should be more psychologists, social scientists and economists than visual artists.
Roger Scruton - Why Beauty Matters (2009)
I'm not a fan of Le Corbusier or van der Rohe—too cold and sterile—but I am fond of Frank Lloyd Wright, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner, and Ray Kappe.
Where modern arcitecture fails for me is in creating a comfortable, pleasant and practical environment for people to live in.
Le Corbusier famously thought of houses as machines to live in. Maybe that metaphor is wrong to start with.