“At first glance, it is an apartment building like countless others around the world. A medium-height slab made of concrete and glass, it occupies an anonymous site surrounded by parking lots and a shopping mall. Appearances can be deceiving. This is Unité d’habitation, arguably the most famous apartment building ever constructed. Designed by Le Corbusier, the celebrated and enormously influential apostle of modernism, this is the building that would save mankind and lead us into the future.” What it actually did was lead urban planners around the U.S. “to an appalling and unprecedented urban sterility and homogeneity.”