André Rogi, Le Corbusier, CA. 1937 © Centre Pompidou, G. Meguerditchian

Although show focuses on his work, a research project will be launched on his life and beliefs

The Pompidou Centre in Paris has hit back at critics who say its Le Corbusier exhibition, which opened to the public yesterday, 29 April, glosses over recent accusations that the Swiss-born French architect was a militant fascist with links to the Vichy regime.According to France 24, at the press opening of Le Corbusier:Measures of Man, the curators Olivier Cinqualbre and Frédéric Migayrou dismissed several recently published books, which reveal Le Corbusier's anti-Semitic views, as “tabloid publications”

A spokeswoman for the Pompidou says the exhibition does not refer to Le Corbusier’s fascist past because “it’s about the proportions of the human body, which are present in his architecture and painting.Olivier Cinqualbre and Frédéric Migayrou worked on this project for three years and didn’t consider this debate because the subject [of fascism] was broached in a 1987 exhibition.”.......Continue Reading

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