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Le Corbusier was a totalitarian brutalist. While that should not be understood as necessarily a totally negative characterisation from yours truly, he was not a functionalist in the sense that I understand the word. That is, functionalism not as a period in the history of art, design and architecture, or as a "style", but rather as an approach or mentality -- that if something is ugly or impractical, no amount of adornment can make it otherwise. I believe the Japanese term for a similar concept is wabi.
At best Le Corbusier was not a very good functionalist, or a perverted one. (He loved concrete to the point of obsession, and using any material where any other material might be more practical, more aesthetically pleasing, more anything, is already a big, ehh, functional no-no).
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