Many elements of this plan were used by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in their layout for Brasília. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this proposed urban design project which would have been based on the abstract shape of the human body. This unrealized plan featured identical housing blocks and green spaces on a Cartesian grid.
ANSWER: Radiant City [accept Ville Radieuse]
[10e] The Radiant City was outlined by this architect, who created five design principles in his “Five Points of Architecture.” This architect also designed the Villa Savoye.
ANSWER: Le Corbusier [or Charles-Edouard Jeanerret]
[10h] Le Corbusier’s other failed plans included his exoskeleton version of this administrative center. This canceled project would have consisted of staggered stacks of ribbed cylinders with a statue of Vladimir Lenin at the top.
ANSWER: Palace of the Soviets
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