Towards a New Architecture (Le Corbusier)

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TOWARDS A NEW
ARCHITECTURE

THE TELEPHONE BUILDING, NEW YORK

TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

by

LE CORBUSIER

translated from the thirteenth French edition with an introduction by

FREDERICK ETCHELLS

PAYSON & CLARKE LTD

NEW YORK

Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bungay, Suffolk.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

THANKS ARE DUE TO THE FOLLOWING, WHO HAVE PERMITTED THE USE OF ILLUSTRATIONS WHICH ARE THEIR PROPERTY: MESSRS. CROSSLEY AND CO. LTD., MESSRS. INDENTED BAR AND CONCRETE ENGINEERING CO. LTD., MESSRS. JOHN P. WHITE AND SONS LTD., MESSRS. LANGLEY LONDON LTD.; AND TO THE ARCHITECTS WHOSE NAMES APPEAR BELOW THE PLATES.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction		v
Argument		1
The Engineer's Aesthetic and Architecture		9
Three Reminders to Architects:
I.	Mass	21
II.	Surface	33
III.	Plan	43
Regulating Lines		65
Eyes Which Do Not See:
I.	Liners	85
II.	Airplanes	105
III.	Automobiles	129
Architecture:
I.	The Lesson of Rome	149
II.	The Illusion of Plans	175
III.	Pure Creation of the Mind	199
Mass-Production Houses		225
Architecture or Revolution		267

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Translation:

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1973, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 51 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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