Towards a new architecture [electronic resource]
Vers une architecture.
by Le Corbusier ; translated from the thirteenth French edition and with an introduction by Frederick Etchells.
- New York Dover Publications 1986
- 1 digital resource (xix, 289 pages) illustrations 24 cm
Translation of: Vers une architecture. Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Rodker, 1931.
Argument -- The engineer's aesthetic and architecture -- Three reminders to architects: I. Mass -- II. Surface -- III. Plan -- Regulating lines -- Eyes which do not see: I. Liners -- II. Airplanes -- III. Automobiles -- Architecture: I. The lesson of Rome -- II. The illusion of plans -- III. Pure creation of the mind -- Mass-production houses -- Architecture or revolution.