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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... beauty 1 The Pack-Donkey's Way has been made into a religion. 916 The movement arose in Germany as a result of a book by Camille Sitte on town-planning, a most wilful piece of work ; a glorification of the curved line and a specious ...
... beauty draws us on and the heroically beautiful seems merely theatrical. We prefer Bach to Wagner, and the spirit that inspired the Pantheon to that which created the cathedral. We love the solution, and we are uneasy 58 THE CITY OF TO ...
... beauty, there is none at all. There is only confusion, chaos and upheaval. The unexpected reversal of all our ideas excites us, but beauty is concerned with quite diflerent things ; in the first place, it has order for its basis ...
... beauty of the machine is claimed as a new formula which will give results of a permanent order. But this is where error creeps in again. Let us analyze a few of the reasons why this is so, and after that I will give you proof of the ...
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