Abstract
In the early 1930s, Le Corbusier declared himself to be politically " colorless ", because, according to him, " the groups that form around [his] ideas are Redressement français, communists, socialists, radicals, royalists and fascists " and that when " you mix all the colors [...] it makes white ".
Rather than colorless, the author of Vers une architecture would actually be multicolored, and his political affinities would be more akin to the figure of the zigzag. While he began the 1930s with the technocrats gathered around the magazines Plans and Prélude, he later courted the leaders of the Front Populaire, before returning to his right-wing friends as he struggled to find his place in the Vichy government's reconstruction plan.
Distrustful of democracy, he expected everything from what he called the " Authority ", which he believed he would discover once again in France in the aftermath of the war, although he was no more successful in his urban planning ventures.
