Between Flux and Certitude: The Grid in Avant‐garde Utopian Thought

McNamara, Andrew

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8365.1992.tb00469.x

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“…Heaven save us from the grasping Balzacian delegates of the spectacle of faces in the black crack of the streets of Paris…" Urbanisme was a serious attempt by Le Corbusier to appeal to planning authorities to change the direction of Paris -even if historiography would mistakenly reduce Le Corbusier's urban oeuvre to 'l'utopie' -to something that amounted to little more than a fantasy. The description of Le Corbusier's urban plans as utopian fantasies appears in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (Fishman 1982;Mcleod 1985;Sutcliffe 1977;Colquhoun 1989;Mcnamara 1992;Rowe 1996;Richards 2003;Coleman 2012). By the time the book came out, Le Corbusier had endured widespread objections to his schemata, bad reviews which he would forensically document, publish, and archive in a chapter of Urbanisme.…”

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The Ghost in the City Industrial Complex: Le Corbusier and the Fascist Theory of Urbanisme

Brott

2016

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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In 1927 le Faisceau’s newspaper Le Nouveau Siècle printed a feature “Le Plan Voisin” on Le Corbusier’s 1922 redesign of Paris, including an extract Le Centre de Paris from his Urbanisme (1925). Le Corbusier’s book was considered the “prodigious” model for the Fascist state that the league’s leader Georges Valois called La Cité Française – after his mentor the French engineer and revolutionary philosopher Georges Sorel, who, originally on the radical left, would eventually be credited as the parent of twentieth-century fascist thought. Valois and Le Corbusier had inherited the longer genealogy of French thought from the turn of the century, namely the bitter opposition to the French revolution, and quarrel with the Enlightenment that was characteristic of many French intellectuals in the early twentieth-century. The final page of Urbanisme features a painting depicting Louis XIV ordering the construction of les Invalides (1670). “Homage to a great urbanist: This despot conceived great things and realized them.” The image was produced at the dawning of the French enlightenment: its contents would become the precise object of the fin de siècle reactionary movements of the 1880s that gave birth to le syndicalisme. Le Corbusier thereby historicises his project for the new Paris.

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The Ghost in the City Industrial Complex: Le Corbusier and the Fascist Theory of Urbanisme

Brott

2016

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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“…CROSSING THE DISCIPLINARY DIVIDE Scholars from many academic disciplines-ranging from modern art, graphic design, and architecture to archaeology, urban planning, and geography-have explored the role of the grid within their respective fields of inquiry (Reps 1965;Castagnoli 1971;Johnson 1976;Hurlburt i978;.Krauss 1985;Williamson 1986;Carter 1988;Swann 1989;Rama 1996;Conzen 2001;Lucas 2001;Chadha 2002;Cameron 2003;Baird 2005). Yet few have attempted to link these different discussions together in an interdisciplinary genealogy of the grid (but see McNamara 1992;Berman 1993;Pope 1996). What is the relationship, for instance, between discussions of the grid in urban planning or historical geography and the use of the grid as the epistemological basis of modern archaeological excavations, cartography, and modern science more generally?…”

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Genealogies of the Grid: Revisiting Stanislawski's Search for the Origin of the Grid–Pattern Town*

Rose‐Redwood¹

2008

Geographical Review

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ABSTRACT. As a spatial form, the grid pattern has influenced a range of human activities, from urban planning, architecture, and modern art to graphic design, archaeology, and cartography. Scholars from different disciplines have generally explored the role of the grid within their respective fields of inquiry. One of the earliest geographical attempts to systematically trace the origin and diffusion of the grid‐pattern town was provided by Dan Stanislawski in the mid–twentieth century. In this article I critically examine the limitations of Stanislawski's theory of the grid's origin as a means of challenging the doctrine of diffusionism more generally. I then provide a selective overview of recent approaches to understanding the grid and call for a comparative genealogy of gridded spaces and places.

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VAST/O Exhibition (De)Construction: Exploring the Potentials of Augmented Abstract Comics and Animation Installations as a Method to Communicate Health Experiences

Alberda,

Carola,

Martins

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Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

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Between Flux and Certitude: The Grid in Avant‐garde Utopian Thought

Cited by 14 publications

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The Ghost in the City Industrial Complex: Le Corbusier and the Fascist Theory of Urbanisme

The Ghost in the City Industrial Complex: Le Corbusier and the Fascist Theory of Urbanisme

Genealogies of the Grid: Revisiting Stanislawski's Search for the Origin of the Grid–Pattern Town*

VAST/O Exhibition (De)Construction: Exploring the Potentials of Augmented Abstract Comics and Animation Installations as a Method to Communicate Health Experiences

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