Toward an architecture / Le Corbusier ; introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen ; translation by John Goodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

Contributor:

Cohen, Jean-Louis.

Goodman, John, 1952 September 19-

Series:

Texts & documents

Standardized Title:

Vers une architecture. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Functionalism (Architecture).

Physical Description:

xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Toward an Architecture

Argument 85

Aesthetic of the Engineer, Architecture 91

Three Reminders to Architects 99

Surface 107

Plan 115

Regulating Lines 131

Eyes That Do Not See... 145

Liners 145

Airplanes 159

Automobiles 177

Architecture 193

The Lesson of Rome 193

The Illusion of the Plan 213

Pure Creation of the Mind 231

Mass-Production Housing 253

Architecture or Revolution 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index.

ISBN:

9780892368228

0892368225

9780892368990

0892368993

OCLC:

77476538