“ In fairness to Le Corbusier, three extenuations can be offered for his life’s appalling work. [..] he had grown up at a time when bourgeois domestic clutter—heavy, elaborate gilt-and-plush furniture; knickknacks everywhere—was often so outrageous that an extreme revulsion against it in the form of militant bareness and absence of adornment was understandable, though not necessarily laudable (the diametrical opposite of an outrage is more likely itself to be an outrage than to be a solution to it).
The Architect as Totalitarian by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2009
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