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LE CORBUSIER, 1915. HOUSE IN REINFORCED CONCRETE The constructional method is here applied to a middle-class house, at the same rate per foot cube as a simple workman's house. The architectural resources of the method employed permit of a large and rhythmical arrangement and make a real architectural treatment possible. It is here that the mass-production principle shows its true value: some sort of link between the rich man's house and the poor man's; and some sort of decency in the rich man's dwelling.
concrete from above, completed in one day as you would fill a bottle.
One thing leads to another, and as so many cannons, airplanes, lorries and wagons had been made in factories, someone asked the question: "Why not make houses?" There you have a state of mind really belonging to our epoch. Nothing is
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