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LE CORBUSIER, 1915. INTERIOR OF A REINFORCED CONCRETE HOUSEMass-production doors, windows, cupboards: the windows are built up of one, two, a dozen units: one door with one impost, two doors with two imposts, or two doors without impost, etc.; cupboards glazed above and with drawers below for books, utensils, etc. All these units, which big industry can supply, are based on a common unit of measurement: they can be adapted to one another exactly. The framework of the house being made, these elements are set up in their proper places in the empty shell and temporarily fixed by laths; the voids are filled by plaster slabs, bricks or lathing; the normal method of building is reversed and months of work are saved. A further gain, of the greatest importance, is architectural unity, and by means of the module, or unit of measurement, good proportion is assured automatically.
possible that building "to measure" will cease. An inevitable social evolution will have transformed the relationship between tenant and landlord, will have modified the current conception of the dwelling-house, and our towns will be ordered instead of being chaotic. A house will no longer be this solidly-built thing which sets out to defy time and decay, and which is an expensive luxury by which wealth can be shown; it will be a tool as the motor-car is becoming a tool. The house will no
