The City of To-morrow and Its Planning (Dover Architecture)
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (965 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486253325 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. Le Corbusier articulates concepts and ideas he would put to work in his city planning schemes for Algiers, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Geneva, Stockholm, and Antwerp, as well as schemes for a variety of structures from a museum in Tokyo to the United Nations buildings. The influence it exerted on a new generation of architects is now legendary.The City of To-morrow and Its Planning characterizes European cit
Language Notes Text: English, French (translation)
"I am glad LeCorbusier never built a city where all the roads" according to Chuck Satchwill. I am glad LeCorbusier never built a city where all the roads would be underground and watering cans would be illegal. A very strange man.. Steven H Propp said ONE OF THE CLASSIC BOOKS BY A KEY MODERN ARCHITECT. The French architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965; born in Switzerland as Charles Edouard Jeanneret) wrote this book in 19"ONE OF THE CLASSIC BOOKS BY A KEY MODERN ARCHITECT" according to Steven H Propp. The French architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965; born in Switzerland as Charles Edouard Jeanneret) wrote this book in 1929, in which he proposed what he called the "Radiant City." Unlike Ebenezer Howard (Garden Cities of To-morrow) and Frank Lloyd Wright (The Natural House), Corbusier supported industrialization and the machine as inevitable, glorified plain skyscrapers ("New York is wrong, but the skyscraper remains a noble instrument"), while enthusiastically supporting modern engineering methods and the use of synthetic building materials.He begins the Foreward by stating, "A Town is a tool. Towns no long. 9, in which he proposed what he called the "Radiant City." Unlike Ebenezer Howard (Garden Cities of To-morrow) and Frank Lloyd Wright (The Natural House), Corbusier supported industrialization and the machine as inevitable, glorified plain skyscrapers ("New York is wrong, but the skyscraper remains a noble instrument"), while enthusiastically supporting modern engineering methods and the use of synthetic building materials.He begins the Foreward by stating, "A Town is a tool. Towns no long. Five Stars Very interesting. Must read and must have for planners.
Swiss-born architect, urban planner, sculptor, painter, and writer Le Corbusier (1887-1956), born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, was one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures of architectural modernism.