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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... geometrical, predetermined and ordered “ leg-outs,” in sharp contrast with the ordinary European mediceoal town 1 with its narrow u/inding streets and picturesque jumhle. It is this latter type of town which has in most cases determined ...
... of mathematics. Machinery is the result if geometry. The age in which we live is therefore essentially a geometrical one; all its ideas are orientated in the XXI direction of geometry. Modern art and thought—after a century of FOREWORD.
... geometrical thing, reigns in them, and has always done so ; it is the mark of great civilizations, and has left dazzling landmarks to be our pride and for our perpetual admonition. Your passion for twisted streets and twisted roofs ...
... geometrically, a perfect thing and at the same time its own proof of this; a marvellously perfect figure, unique ... geometrical cells. Of course we may admit at once that in the last hundred years a sudden, chaotic and sweeping ...
... geometrical forms, for instinctively he submits to those universal laws which he does not even try to understand, but from which he makes no attempt to liberate himself. (h) Nations which are moving towards a culture (what force impels ...