Google made me post this.

You know it's funny I like Bauhaus architecture (Gropius was clearly an influence on FLW), but I HATE Le Corbusier. He represents all that is poisoned and wrong with the "modern" spirit, IMO.

Interestingly enough someone mentioned Kunstler today and I think this is as good a quote as any:
"Le Corbusier [was] ... the leading architectural hoodoo-meister of Early High Modernism, whose 1925 Plan Voisin for Paris proposed to knock down the entire Marais district on the Right Bank and replace it with rows of identical towers set between freeways. Luckily for Paris, the city officials laughed at him every time he came back with the scheme over the next forty years – and Corb was nothing if not a relentless self-promoter. Ironically and tragically, though, the Plan Voisin model was later adopted gleefully by post-World War Two American planners, and resulted in such urban monstrosities as the infamous Cabrini Green housing projects of Chicago and scores of things similar to it around the country."

And of course I love Jane Jacobs, another Le Corb hater. Look up stuff about her.

Speculation:

Iraq has basically become the site of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
This is why "we're" leaning on Iran so hard right now.

Thoughts?

(on the larger scale of things, I think Saudi Arabia plays into a lot of what looks to the outside world as a series of massive blunders by the USA)