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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780892368228 |
Publisher: | Getty Publications |
Imprint: | Getty Research Institute |
Pub date: | 04 Mar 2016 |
Edition: | 1 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xiii, 341 |
Weight: | 1170g |
Height: | 253mm |
Width: | 178mm |
Spine width: | 32mm |