Corbu Glasses

It was Swiss architect Le Corbusier who first made owlish black spectacles a signature, thereby giving generations of geeky architecture students their claim to the "look". But, does anyone really want to look like Corbu, considering the following? Better to wear the Fatal Vision® marijuana goggles!

Beginning his practice in the second decade of the 20th century, Le Corbusier wanted to correct the ‘chaos’ of the city and create an ideal order. His impact on modernist planning thought is incalculable, and his ideas were widely applied in cities during the 1950s and ‘60s. For urbanist Peter Hall “the evil that Le Corbusier did lives after him”. The creation of the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), in which Le Corbusier played a significant role, reinforced the strict professional separation of architects as an ego-driven profession and distinct caste, with their modernist ideas later mirrored in urban planning approaches. Le Corbusier indicated that citizens might be “re-educated” to interact with his urban vision. Ultimately, though, Le Corbusier was of the opinion that city planning was altogether “too important to be left to the citizens”. 
    --D. Beatty