Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
Introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen
Translation by John Goodman
4to. pp. 358. profusely illustrated. hardcover boards. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007.
New in publisher's shrink wrap.
ISBN-10: 0892368993 / ISBN-13: 9780892368990
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From the Getty Research Institute Texts & Documents Series
Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier’s slogans—such as “the house is a machine for living in”—and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.