This work was initially translated by Frederick Etchells, but a new version with a slightly altered title has recently been released by John Goodman with historical introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen.
This work was initially translated by Frederick Etchells, but a new version with a slightly altered title has recently been released by John Goodman with historical introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen. Its section entitled "Eyes That Do Not See" criticizes blind adoption of traditional ideas while another of its seven essays concerns the notion of a "Pure Creation of the Mind," and another section begins with the declaration "A great epoch has begun. There exists a new spirit." It is the most celebrated work of an author whose later writings include The Poem of the Right Angle and When the Cathedrals Were White. This work, likely written with Amedée Ozenfant, contains such statements ►as "the plan is the generator" and "a house is a machine for living in." FTP, name this influential collection by Le Corbusier.
This work was initially translated by Frederick Etchells, but a new version with a slightly altered title has recently been released by John Goodman with historical introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen.
{Towards a New Architecture} (or {Towards an Architecture} or Vers une Architecture)