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This article examines two instances of an analogical construction by which architects living and working outside of Western metropoles are identified as “the Le Corbusier of …”: Shiv Nath Prasad (1922– c. 2004) thus becomes “the Le Corbusier of India,” while Jean-François Zevaco (1916–2003) becomes “the Le Corbusier of Morocco.” It uses the careers and built works of these architects, as well as of Le Corbusier himself, to interrogate the nature of this analogy—revealing the extent to which the source term “Le Corbusier” circulates as a shorthand for a limited set of visual and material references, thereby reinforcing a reductive understanding of both the architect’s work and the nature of its influence within the global spread of modernism. Here, Le Corbusier’s own engagements with vernacular building and his work outside of Europe are brought into conversation with the regionalist and hybrid approaches of these and other architects whose work does not so easily conform to a “Corbusian” idiom. Ultimately, the article suggests that this analogy may tell us as much, or more, about the implied understanding of “Le Corbusier” as a source term than about the target terms (Prasad and Zevaco) it is meant to illuminate.

Brutal analogies: multiplying Le Corbusiers across global architecture