Toward an ArchitectureGetty Publications, 2007 - 341 pages Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations. |
Table des matières
Introduction JeanLouis Cohen | 1 |
Toward an Architecture | 26 |
Introduction to the Second Edition | 83 |
Argument | 85 |
Aesthetic of the Engineer Architecture | 91 |
Three Reminders to Architects 99 Volume | 99 |
Surface | 107 |
Plan | 115 |
Automobiles | 177 |
Architecture 193 The Lesson of Rome | 193 |
The Illusion of the Plan | 213 |
Pure Creation of the Mind | 231 |
MassProduction Housing | 253 |
Architecture or Revolution | 291 |
Editors and Translators Notes | 308 |
Selected Bibliography | 331 |
Regulating Lines | 131 |
Eyes That Do Not See 145 Liners | 145 |
Airplanes | 159 |
Illustration Credits | 335 |
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