The interwar period was a tense and important moment in human history, particularly for the continent European. France suffered enormously during the First World War and the psyche of the nation was shaken to its core. The result was, for some, a desire for a return to the relatively peaceful state before the war. The “Call to Order,” as it was called, embodies this effort. Many artistic movements have been abandoned, temporarily or permanently. Such was the fate of the Futurist movement, which somewhat naively glorified everything that had made the First World War so incredibly destructive to the continent, technology and violence. A resurgence of classical style art followed. Just as the population sought clearly defined order and purity in their lives, so did the search for pure forms of artistic expression. Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Eduoard Jeanneret led the Purist movement, eschewing the decorative qualities of Cubism and focusing on the precise, orderly expression of form that they sought to restore order to the arts. Jeanneret, who later became Le Corbuiser, used these methods and theories to work in architecture, literally seeking to rebuild cities in a pure and orderly way. Corbusier's architectural work during the interwar period would become the foundation of much modern architectural thought. His methods and beliefs paved the way for most works built today. Although his hopes for a more orderly physical manifestation of society never came to fruition as much as he wished, the impact he had on the discipline of architecture is enormous. The notion of purity was key to many of Corbusier's design principles. Purism as an artist......middle of paper......Works CitedBatchelor, David, Briony Fer, Paul Wood. Realism, rationalism, surrealism: art between the wars. New Havre; London: Yale University Press, 1993. Baltanás, José. Walk through Le Corbusier. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Benton, Tim. The Villas of Le Corbusier 1920-1930. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1987. Boesiger, Willy. Le Corbusier. Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1991. Corbusier, Le. Towards a new architecture. Translated by Frederick Etchells. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1986. Gans, Deborah. The Le Corbusier Guide. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye. VHS. Tim Benton. 2000. New York: Insight Media, 2000.VHS Film.Weddle, Robert. Housing and technological reform in interwar France: the case of the Cité de la Muette. Journal of Architectural Education, 54:3, 167-175. Online.