Towards a New ArchitectureLe Corbusier
Towards a New Architecture
by Le Corbusier · first published 1970
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…honestly, letting the structure reflect the construction and not just continuing a deception by putting a non-structural greek facade on everything. For a good peek into the modernist mindset, I recommend Towards a New Architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toward_an_Architecture) by Le Corbusier. As a contrast, I recommend the post-modernist view in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi).…
on “Skeuomorph” ↗…contemporary architects learn. Vitrivius - the Ten Books of Architecture, Alberti - On The Art of Building, Palladio - Four Books on Architecture, Semper - The Four Elements of Architecture, Le Corbusier - Towards a new Architecture. Sprinkle in some Laugier - an Essay on Architecture, Rasmussen - Experiencing Architecture, Wittkower - Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, Giedion - Space, Time, and Architecture, (along…
on “Why hasn't prefab construction taken over?” ↗I can't find any online searchable text of his great polemic, "Towards a New Architecture" -- but basically if you read that it's pretty clear: he hated people. Individual humans are fine and should have their needs efficiently catered to, but humans, en masse, are a repugnant horror that…
on “What Le Corbusier got wrong and right in his design of Chandigarh” ↗…for research, but it's fascinating. - Dark Markets by Misha Glenny - How to Live on Mars by robert Zubrin - The Lightness of Being by Frank Wilczek - This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin - Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier - and Strange Things Happen by Stewart Copeland Technical- - Tangled Web (I saw someone else mention it, and it's really really good so far) - Skiena's Algorithms book (making slower…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading? What've you read lately?” ↗…previous architecture was obsolete. With the nostalgic and excessive neoclassical style of the beaux-arts dominating the 19th C. it wouldn't've been hard to get that impression. From the tellingly titled "Towards a New Architecture": "Engineers have been busy with barrages, with bridges, with Atlantic liners, with mines, with railways. Architects have been asleep." He was not alone in that conception. He wasn't even the first of…
on “Le Corbusier as I Knew Him (1977)” ↗Hated him in architecture school. Was assigned the incomprehensible Towards a New Architecture as a first year. Had an argument w/ my professor over The Modular, his 'based on human' measuring system. It's a failure if you present a new system of measurement, but then concede that it doesn't work…
on “100 years of Le Corbusier: what does he mean to today’s architects?” ↗