Toward an Architecture (Getty Research Institute)
Book Details
Author(s)A01 Le Corbusier
PublisherGetty Research Institute
ISBN / ASIN0892368225
ISBN-139780892368228
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Sales Rank407,911
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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 inâ€â€”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.Â

