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...Corbu," of course, is remembered as the man who would have started improving Paris by demolishing its most historic part. But that was in 1922; the master is now 78 and mellowed. He has flattered his intended, asking, "Have you observed that Venice is gay and proud, never menaced, never shoved about, never disturbed?" Returning recently, he found Venice "a modern city made for man, without the oppression of machine civilization...
...they aren't, the boys at the Harvard News Office are. Probably the most dependable and least exciting group, the News Office crew has little interest in the artistic projects of the Corbu crowd. They publish in the Alumni Bulletin and sometimes earn four figure salaries...
...Aires and Paris?is watching a city he designed rise in India on the flat Punjab plain 150 miles north of New Delhi. Brick and concrete Chandigarh, new capital of the Punjab state, will hold 500,000 people when completed (urban services become inefficient when cities get any bigger, "Corbu" thinks), and the city's first phase, housing 150,000, is more than half finished. Chandigarh's basic plan is a series of sectors less than a mile on a side with capacities varying from 8,000 to 20,000. Its major weakness: public buildings are so far apart...
...found," he said. "But what must never be forgotten is that Venice is a 'psychotop'-a place where you anchor your soul." France's famed Le Corbusier sounded the same note in a letter to the mayor. "Venice must be declared a sacred city," wrote Corbu. "Venice, without roads, is a city where the human nervous system can regain its equilibrium and man's heart open itself to serenity...
...connection with your excellent Le Corbusier coverage, you might like to know that "Corbu" was deeply influenced by the unusual white, windowless, thick-walled folk architecture of the tiny Mediterranean island of Mykonos...