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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... pure forms can give us. We are to aim first of all at eyfieieney, for that is the erying need an' the moment, hut it must lead us on to a fine and nohle arehiteeture. By permission oft/1e Sunday Graphic. A FOGGY DAY IN LONDON Under sueh ...
... 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 details of such periods to huildings conceioed on a ...
... pure geometry; a violin or a chair, things which come into close contact with the body, are of a less pure geometry ; but a town is pure geometry. When man is free, his tendency is towards pure geometry. It is then that he achieves what ...
... pure ; capable of being applied to ideas of glory and victory or to the idea of complete purity, the germ of every religion. Paris is a dangerous magma of human beings gathered from every quarter by conquest, growth and immigration; she ...
... pure, true and real. In 1300 the cathedral was born I Here is an amazing fact ! From the Pantheon 1 we arrive at the cathedral; out of the old classical culture came the Middle Ages. This is how cultures grow; they are based on personal ...