TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Toward an architecture
A1  - Le Corbusier
A2  - Cohen, Jean-Louis
A2  - Goodman, John
LA  - eng
PP  - London : Los Angeles
PB  - Frances Lincoln ; Getty Research Institute
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2165468
AB  - Few books in the twentieth century drew as much attention as Le Corbusier's Vers une architecture (1923), published in English as Towards a New Architecture (1927). He urged architects to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Le Corbusier wrote simultaneously as an architect, city planner, historian, critic, discoverer and prophet, and he illustrated Towards a New Architecture with striking images of airplanes, cars and ocean liners, provocatively placed next to views of Classical Greece and Renaissance Rome. His slogans -- such as 'The house is a machine for living in' -- and his 'Reminders to Architects' changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text that preserves the design and compelling voice of the original, background notes on Corbu's concepts and iconography and a scholarly introduction that reconstructs the production of the book, the origin of its ideas and its reception throughout the world.
SN  - 9780711228085 sidottu
SN  - 0711228086 sidottu
SN  - 0711228094 nidottu
SN  - 9780711228092 nidottu
KW  - Architecture.
KW  - Functionalism (Architecture)
KW  - arkkitehtuuri
ER  -