ABSTRACT
This Critical Pedagogy takes up the task of reading Le Corbusier’s Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture), in particular the last two chapters of the book, to evaluate his famous declaration on the relation between architecture and revolution. The main point in this evaluation is that ‘architecture sans revolution’ is the fundamental orientation of architecture in capitalist modernity, which prompts the implicit but prevailing academic pedagogy, that is, ‘architecture is the critique of revolution’, which I argue must be overturned. In the twentieth century, Le Corbusier is the key figure and the point of departure for the idea that architecture can ‘revolutionize itself without revolution’.
