Misty's review
Towards a New Architecture
by Le Corbusier
Misty's review
Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
Misty's review
rating:
I was kinda surprised when I started reading this book. I always thought that LeCorb was some kind of communist. Design for Brasilia for example was based on the idea that the architecture of the city could create a truly equal society. In this text LeCorb talks about the modern age of capitalist consummerism and the new kind of life that this revolution in industry has created. LeCorb suggests that we should not merely rehash 'styles' of other era when they do not relate to the way we live now. But he goes further to say that resisting a change in the design of the home is morally dangerous and could result in revolution. The strange thing is - and the apparent contradiction in this text - is that LeCorb is always looking back to previous styles by talking about the perfection created by greek and roman architecture. He talks about universal truths regarding space and form and light in a way which is consistant with a modernist rhetoric but simply doesn't stand up in a post-modern dec...more
