Towards a New Architecture
by Le CorbusierFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1970-01-01
Publisher(s): Butterworth Architecture
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Summary
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 | p. V |
| Argument | p. 1 |
| The Engineer's Aesthetic and Architecture | p. 9 |
| Three Reminders to Architects | |
| Mass | p. 21 |
| Surface | p. 33 |
| Plan | p. 43 |
| Regulating Lines | p. 65 |
| Eyes Which Do Not See | |
| Liners | p. 85 |
| Airplanes | p. 105 |
| Automobiles | p. 129 |
| Architecture | |
| The Lesson of Rome | p. 149 |
| The Illusion of Plans | p. 175 |
| Pure Creation of the Mind | p. 199 |
| Mass-Production Houses | p. 225 |
| Architecture of Revolution | p. 267 |
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