UP HIS KHYBER PASS

I believe that seldom in the annals of art-historical writing has there been a more erudite and therefore effective excoriation of another artist (historical or not) than the one Tom Wolfe delivers in reference to the architect Le Corbusier:

"Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle thin umber bird."