Toward an Architecture

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By Le Corbusier

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Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture is a foundational text by Le Corbusier that revolutionised architectural thinking. Rejecting historical styles, Le Corbusier draws provocative comparisons between classical art and modern technology, urging architects to embrace the machine age. Featuring slogans such as “the house is a machine for living in,” this work reshaped the dialogue around architecture's relationship to technology and history. This edition offers a new translation, scholarly introduction, and detailed background notes to enrich readers’ understanding of the original text and illustrations.
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Toward an Architecture is ideal for students, professionals, and enthusiasts of architecture and modern design, as well as readers interested in the intersection of technology and cultural history.

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Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world.

Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier’s slogans—such as “the house is a machine for living in”—and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history.

This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

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The book has been praised for its restored passages and typographical fidelity, described as “refreshing and timely” by Artforum. Reviews highlight its passionate, witty, and aphoristic style, making it an essential read for understanding early 20th-century architecture, as per the Chicago Tribune. It is regarded as the bible of modern architecture by Dwell and praised for the new translation and introduction by The New York Times.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780892368228

Publisher: Getty Trust Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 March 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: J Paul Getty Trust Publications,US

Illustration: 249 b/w illus.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 253.0mm

Weight: 1170g

Pages: 358

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Arts & Culture Le Corbusier Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Chair in the History of Architecture at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He has written extensively on Le Corbusier's work. John Goodman is a translator and art historian. He has rendered some thirty books from French into English.