Le Corbusier was a founding father of the Modernist movement and an artist, builder, painter, urban planner, and writer who argued that “architecture is an economic and political instrument that can change the environment by architectural design and urban planning.”
His design theories became a reality when he built a workers’ city of 40 houses in Pessac, near Bordeaux, imitating the concept of assembly line manufacturing of cars. His ideas have been applied to an entire city – Chandigarh, India, dubbed “The Planned City.”