Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier

Author:Le Corbusier
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2013-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

HUMBER, 1907

THE PARTHENON, 447-434 B.C.

A standard is necessary for order in human effort.

DELAGE, “GRAND-SPORT,” 1921

HISPANO SUIZA, 1911. OZENFANT COACHWORK

A standard is established on sure bases, not capriciously but with the surety of something intentional and of a logic controlled by analysis and experiment.

All men have the same organism, the same functions.

All men have the same needs.

The social contract which has evolved through the ages fixes standardized classes, functions and needs producing standardized products.

The house is a thing essential to man.

Painting is a thing essential to man since it responds to needs of a spiritual order, determined by the standards of emotion.

All great works of art are based on one or other of the great standards of the heart: Œdipus, Phædra, the Enfant Prodigue, the Madonnas, Paul et Virginie, Philemon and Baucis, the Pauvre Pêcheur, the Marseillaise, Madelon vient nous verser à boire….

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