Towards a New Architecture

by Le Corbusier

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This is a must read for any architect. It explains all of modernism and also gives you a window into its problems. It is also concise which is strange for most architects’ writings. (

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Towards a New Architecture

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1923 (title: Vers une architecture)

1927 (English translation)

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The Engineer’s Aesthetic, and Architecture, are two things that march together and follow one from the other: the one being now at its full height, the other in an unhappy state of retrogression.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486250237, Paperback)

This pioneering proclamation by the great architect expounds Le Corbusier's technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, the relation of form to function, "mass-production spirit," and much more. Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of Le Corbusier's buildings and other important structures.

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