The Whole City Is Covered with Greenery: Le Corbusier and His Vision of a New Urban Landscape

Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture is usually read as a manifesto promoting an engineering approach to architecture that is also a “limpid and impressive plastic fact”. Yet its complexity allows for further interpretations, including the neglected perspective of architecture’s relation to the landscape. The text contains numerous statements on the building-landscape relationship, urban planning and greenery, and the integration of house and garden. This study examines the manifesto from the viewpoint of landscape and garden architecture to enrich our understanding of Le Corbusier’s thinking, which existing literature has addressed more through his projects rather than his writings.