T his exhibition is being staged in the most absurd and most provocative of places: a crypt. Is modernism dead? Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was the most influential architect of the past 100 years. The last major British exhibition of his work was mounted more than 20 years ago at London's Hayward Gallery, the most brutal of London's brutalist buildings.

The Hayward, which has just celebrated its 40th birthday, was designed by the GLC architects' department, which was then, incredibly, the biggest architecture office in the world, and its bright young staff were profoundly indebted to Le Corbusier. Their works, cerebral and avant-garde, usually deeply unpopular (mostly municipal housing and grim offices), contributed to a stubborn hatred of the massive concrete architecture so intimately associated with Le Corbusier. It seemed the perfect setting.