Le Corbusier & Playtime

                Le Corbusier is a very famous architect, his unique design inspired many buildings and in the 20th century. His works may looks really simple compare to many buildings that we can see nowadays, but that is exactly the way he want it to be. His designs are considered  "modern", which is more about simplicity and functions more that decorations. Also, Le Corbusier combined his modern designs with "mass production", a concept of creating a perfect place, a utopia for every person where all of them can have the same equal standard. He created buildings that can really fit into everyone standards, so that there will be the advantage and disadvantage. The results are similar to factories, where every routine are repeated endlessly, everyone has the same thing and living in the same way. I think that in the end everybody becomes more like a machine that human.

                And then there is a movie called "Playtime", in the movie we can see that the city is very similar to Le Corbusier's utopia where there are almost no differences between people. The movie shows the city where the buildings are created to look the same everywhere, and people shared a very similar way of living. Just like one of Le Corbusier manifesto that he compared a house to a machine for living, in the movie, I can see the connections to that, because people are so robotic and lifeless.  The movie shows another side of Le Corbusier's concept, it shows the time when a perfect world started to effects people lives and identities.

                In my opinion, I love the idea of creating a utopia for everyone, I respect how it will create equality to all the people but as we can see in the movie, may be people are not ready for it yet. As you can see, people are people because we are all different from each other. By living like this, people have their own identities and their way of living, indifferent from industrial lifestyle in "Playtime" where their lifestyle are limited. Even it may not be equal for everyone but I believe that the uniqueness each people is the most valuable things that people can have.