Towards a New Architecture

Title: Towards a New Architecture Author: Le Corbusier ISBN: 9780486250236 Publisher: Dover Publications Published: 1985 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Architecture & Design 1555059 Publisher Description: For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional relationships by means of raw materials." The first major exposition of his ideas appeared in Vers une Architecture (1923), a compilation of articles originally written by Le Corbusier for his own avant-garde magazine, L'Esprit Nouveau. The present volume is an unabr