The battle for Le Corbusier: Fascism row taints legacy of France’s foremost architect © Fondation Le Corbusier / ADAGP | Le Corbusier's 1925 "Plan Voisin" planned to raze parts of central Paris and replace them with high-rise towers and highways. Text by Benjamin DODMAN Latest update : 2015-04-29 A row over Le Corbusier's fascist links and alleged anti-Semitism has cast a pall over the legacy of one of the world's best-known architects and hijacked the launch of the Centre Pompidou's bold new retrospective of his work. One hour into Tuesday's press visit, the elephant in the room was as conspicuous as the architect’s concrete blocks, and sure enough it came stomping out at the first question: “A comprehensive retrospective of Le Corbusier’s work, and no mention of the F-word?” Olivier Cinqualbre and Frédéric Migayrou, the joint curators, had been expecting this. Le Corbusier is no stranger to controversy. The man born in 1887 as Charles-Edouard Jeannere