Towards a new architecture
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Towards a new architecture
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1989
- Other Title
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Vers une architecture
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Note
Translation of: Vers une architecture
Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Rodker, 1931
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 'Vers une Architecture', published in 1923, Le Corbusier equates the pure forms of the machine with the pure forms of the Parthenon to illustrate his view of architecture as a question of mass rather than facades, and that machines are highly architectural. First published in English in 1927, it is the most influential architectural manifesto of modern times.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION: Argument
- The Engineer's Aesthetic and Architecture
- Three reminders to Architects: I Mass II Surface III Plan
- Regulating lines
- Eyes which do not see: I Liners II Airplanes III Automobiles
- Architecture: I The lesson of Rome II The illusion of plans III Pure creation of the mind
- Mass-production houses
- Architecture or Revolution
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