The period between the two world wars was a tense and significant time in the history of humanity, particularly for the European continent. France had suffered immensely during the First World War and the nation's psyche was deeply shaken. The result was, for some, a desire for a return to the relatively peaceful state felt before the war. The “Call to Order,” as it became known, epitomized this effort. Many artistic movements were abandoned, temporarily or permanently. This was the fate of the futurist movement, which sort of naively glorified all the things that had made the First World War so incredibly destructive to the continent, to technology and to violence. A revival of classical style art followed. Just as the people sought a well-defined order and purity in their lives, so too was the search for pure forms of artistic expression. Amedee Ozenfant and Charles-Eduoard Jeanneret led the Purist movement, eschewing the decorative qualities of Cubism and focusing on the precise, orderly expression of form, they sought to restore order to the arts. Jeanneret, who would later become Le Corbuiser, used these methods and theories to work in architecture, seeking to literally rebuild cities in a pure and orderly manner. Corbusier's architectural work during the interwar period would become the foundation of much modern architectural thought. His methods and beliefs laid the foundation for much of the work built today. Although his hopes of seeing a more orderly physical manifestation of society were never realized to the extent he desired, the impact he had on the discipline of architecture is enormous. Key to many of Le Corbusier's design principles was the notion of purity. Purism as an artist......center of paper......Works CitedBatchelor, David, Briony Fer, Paul Wood. Realism, rationalism, surrealism: art between the wars. New port; London: Yale University Press, 1993. Baltanás, José. Walking through Le Corbusier. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2006.Benton, Tim. Le Corbusier's Villas 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. Le Corbusier's 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.