Toward an Architecture

by Le Corbusier

• ISBN13: 9780892368228
• ISBN10: 0892368225
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: INGRAM

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
From the Translator	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Toward an Architecture
Introduction to the Second Edition	p. 83
Argument	p. 85
Aesthetic of the Engineer, Architecture	p. 91
Three Reminders to Architects	p. 99
Volume	p. 99
Surface	p. 107
Plan	p. 115
Regulating Lines	p. 131
Eyes That Do Not See...	p. 145
Liners	p. 145
Airplanes	p. 159
Automobiles	p. 177
Architecture	p. 193
The Lesson of Rome	p. 193
The Illusion of the Plan	p. 213
Pure Creation of the Mind	p. 231
Mass-Production Housing	p. 253
Architecture or Revolution	p. 291
Editor's and Translator's Notes	p. 308
Selected Bibliography	p. 331
Illustration Credits	p. 335
Index	p. 336
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