Toward an Architecture

von Le Corbusier

358 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Getty Research Institute
• Themen: Kunst Architektur Geschichte der Architektur
• ISBN: 9780892368990
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2007
• Größe: 264 x 189 mm
• Verlag: Getty Publications
• Übersetzung: John Goodman