Comparing Palladio to Le Corbusier - Why?

In Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, does Colin Rowe try too hard to identify a connection between Palladio and Le Corbusier? I tend to disagree with Rowe anyway, particularly when he states that “Palladia, writing elsewhere, amplifies the ideal life of the villa. Its owner, from within a fragment of created order, will watch the maturing of his possessions and savour the piquancy of contrast between his fields and his gardens; reflecting on mutability, he will contemplate throughout the years the antique virtues of a simpler race, and the harmonious ordering of his life and his estate will be an analogy of paradise.” Well while I expect many would find this a haven of serenity, I would go out of my mind in this “fragment of created order”. I guess I’m just one of these people who strive in chaos and is at home in mess and dirt.

But back to my original point, Rown declares that “These are two buildings which, in their forms and evocations, are superficially so entirely unlike that to bring them together would seem to be facetious; but, if the obsessive psychological and physical gravity of the Malcontenta receives no parallel in a house which sometimes wishes to be a ship, sometimes a gymnasium, this difference of mood should not be allowed to inhibit scrutiny.” This attempt to compare the similarities of both buildings is a desperate one. Anyone could find some similarities between a shoe and a tube station if they examined them hard enough, but is this enough of a reason to do it? Is it simply because he wished to compare Palladio's Villa Foscari to Mr and Mrs Michael Stein's House, simply because it is Le Corbusier? Does he write about Le Corbusier just to give his text a wider reading audience? 

Is it terrible to say that I’m getting bored of Le Corbusier? Well, what I should say is that I’m getting bored of the constant talks about him. It’s like hearing your favourite song being played every 5 minutes by all stations. It gets over-played to the point where you want to blow your brains out rather than hear it again. I don’t want to criticize architectural courses, but its constant “Le Corbusier this, Le Corbusier that”, it’s a rare moment if you can talk about any other architecture at all.

Please, please just a little less Le Corbusier, before I start to hate him altogether!