Le Corbusier at Cap-Martin, painting the murals of the neighboring Villa E 1027

Le Corbusier’s final piece of writing is a brief text of meditations known as Mise au point. It did not see the light of day during its author’s lifetime; Le Corbusier annotated the manuscript in July 1965 and died several weeks later while swimming in the Mediterranean. By strange coincidence, this “omega”-narrative of his life shared a common fate with the “alpha” of his career, the travel journal he wrote in 1911, Le Voyage d’Orient (Journey to the East). Both texts were in his …