Dover Architecture: Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)

from encephalical

Passionate writing. The rhetoric of the last chapter made me think of Mon Oncle as a reaction. Corbusier does lay it on thickly. As a rural Midwesterner, his appreciation of grain elevators gladden...

from madepercy

This translation of Towards a New Architecture, originally written in 1923, is prophetic in many ways. Le Corbusier writes of the “machine age” much like someone now might write of the “information...

from janemarieprice

This is a must read for any architect. It explains all of modernism and also gives you a window into its problems. It is also concise which is strange for most architects' writings.

from janemarieprice

This is a must read for any architect. It explains all of modernism and also gives you a window into its problems. It is also concise which is strange for most architects' writings.