Le Haussier
Le Corbusier + Haussmann = Le Haussier!
The two architechts have very different styles, mostly because of the decades that lie between the heart of their lives, but they have one thing in common. Not only did they have extraordinary plans for Paris, they have also effected the lives of so many people with the ways that they think and how they see the future world.
Le Corbusier is widely known to be the architect to have changed the people (whether we know it or not) of the twentieth century. He believed that this century would be one with much progress, with a whole new way of life. Although not all of his ideas and drawings came to life, his prediction was very true. He had many plans to solve problems for urban living. He saw the urban sprawl, the world trapling across miles and miles of square miles. To solve this, he created a new kind of city and world of its own. It is known as the city for three million. He planned it to stop this urban sprawl, to stop man from ruining the earth, and to create harmony among the human race and Mother Nature.
One of his most famous quotes was, "A house is a machine for living in." His designs did just that. They were so well thought out and composed that most considered them genious. His works also tried to encorporate nature into them. During his time, people often lived in victorian, dark houses, and this may have felt like a trap to them. Le Corbusier escaped from this. He offered highly planned cities were one could escape and visit nature.
Baron Haussmann was born many years earlier than Le Corbusier, and is very well known for transforming Paris. He was a civic planner that changed Paris into what we know today. He brought a whole new quality of life to Paris that the people there had never seen before. His goal was to not only help the people there, but to change Paris' look into somthing powerful and unforgetful. Haussmann tore down slums and old neighborhoods and created huge streets and public buildings to put in there place. The people suffered from disease from a bad water and sewage system, so he refined that also. Although Haussmann only changed Paris, it was very influential to people all over the world.
"Le Corbusier" http://www.open2.net/modernity/4_1.htm
"Haussmann and New Paris" 2001. France in the Age of Les Miserables. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/mapping-paris/Haussmann.html