About Buildings + Cities 28 – Le Corbusier – 3 – Towards a New Architecture
Dec 13, 2017
Explore the exciting intersection of architecture and the machine age, as Le Corbusier proposes that modern design should merge timeless values with contemporary technology. Discover fascinating contrasts, like sports cars alongside the Parthenon, and delve into the critique of modern architecture's clarity versus the complexity often found in design today. The conversation touches on historical influences from cubism to Greek temples, and reveals how engineering principles can reshape our living environments for a better future.
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Engineers' Spirit Guides Architecture
- Le Corbusier values engineers for their clarity of purpose and integration of spiritual guidance in design.
- He contrasts this with architects lost in custom and historicist styles inhibiting progress.
Primary Geometry Over Decoration
- Architecture must return to primary geometric forms like cylinders and cubes stripped of decoration.
- Le Corbusier attacks historicism and advocates for simplicity inspired by industrial objects like grain elevators.
Plan as Architecture's Generator
- Le Corbusier critiques the Beaux-Arts plan as decorative and ossified by historical precedent.
- He insists plan is the generator of architecture, organizing function and essence of sensation.
