" This book was made up of articles published in the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau and echoed its author's "five points," as exemplified by his Villa Savoye.
This work claims that primitive man's trouble planning a board is the origin of "regulating lines," to which its author advocates a return. It discusses disastrous human attempts at bird-like flight before the development of the airfoil, before laying out several "fundamental axioms" amidst repeated claims that we must face either the title discipline "or revolution." It also discusses the "problem of perfection" before turning to examples of clean and modern aesthetics, like automobiles and ocean liners, in its section "Eyes That Do Not See." This book was made up of articles published in the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau and echoed its author's "five points," as exemplified by his Villa Savoye. For 10 points, name this book, which proposed that a "house is a machine for living in," a tract by Le Corbusier.
This work claims that primitive man's trouble planning a board is the origin of "regulating lines," to which its author advocates a return.
Towards a New Architecture [or Towards an Architecture; or Vers une architecture]