Towards a New Architecture (Dover Architecture) - 7326

Profusely illustrated, this pioneering manifesto by the founder of the "International School" emphasizes his technical and aesthetic theories, views of industry and economics, the relation of form to function, "mass-production split," and much more. 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 using raw materials." The first major exposition of his ideas appeared in Vers une Architecture (1923), a compilation of articles written by Le Corbusier for his avant-garde magazine, L'Esprit Nouveau. The present volume is an unabridged English translation of the 13th French edition of that historic manifesto, in which Le Corbusier expounded his technic