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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... constructions and daring experiments; that it is pure folly to sit down discontentedly and sigh for the deg/s of Merrie England or the leisured stateliness of the eighteenth century, or to make attempts to adapt the architectural ...
... construction of buildings, sewers and tunnels, highways, pavements. The circulation of traffic demands the straight FIRST LUTETIA, THEN PARIS The buildings still occupy the original sites, e.g. Notre-Dame, le Palais. The great ...
... constructions based on the order which is imposed upon him by his body, and so he creates. All the works that man has achieved are an “ ordering.” Seen from the sky, they appear on the earth below as geometric objects. And if, on the ...
... ; it might Well be expressed by intuition is the sum of acquired knowledge. (And it might be said too of instinct that. 1 I am here taking the Pantheon as a symbol of Roman construction generally. SENSIBILITY COMES INTO PLAY 35.
... construction has arrived. And the spirit of construction has entered into our minds; we are able to appreciate and to measure; we can recognize what is best; we can bring proportion to bear. From the welter of forms which were subjected ...