The City of Tomorrow and Its PlanningCourier Corporation, 09.04.2013 - 352 Seiten In this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thrilled a world already deep in the throes of the modern age. |
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... architectural forms which were a part of the necessary education of the cultioated eighteenth century gentleman must have helped, one imagines, to make that amazing age what it was. This volume has a more immediate appeal to the ...
... architectural details of such periods to huildings conceioed on a scale to which these forms are totally unsuited. Le Corhusier here presents to us two imposing schemes for the reconstruction of a modern city—one which he calls the ...
... architectural prohlem in the demand for totally new methods of huilding, the prohlem of new plans adapted to modern life, the prohlem of an cesthetic in harmony with the new spirit. 9K The moment comes when a widespread enthusiasm is ...
... architectural prohlem of old Europe, I answered, lies in the great city of to-day. There lies the You or the Nay, life or slow extinction. One or the other, hut it will he Yes if we wish it. And our overweighted cultures of the past ...
... typical German manifestation. Thus Le Temps (this serious newspaper) gives its readers false information by the medium of M. Léandre Vaillat, who is a charming man but apt to be over-excited by petty architectural sensations. ORDER U.