The reference to the traditional views of some great masters – Michelangelo and Phidias above all – is combined with other elements, best suited to represent the needs and values of the new times: the great works of engineering and transport equipment . Finally, the greek temple lives on in the trains, automobiles, airplanes, ships.”Architecture is the learned game, rigorous and magnificent play of volumes assembled in light”: this phrase, an expression of logical lyricism of Le Corbusier, has its natural complement to anotherfamous formula: “The house is a machine for living “. The bridge between the two statements is, in the age of machines, the function, fruibility, and in addition the line and geometry: in a word, form.
“The construction is to take up: the architecture is to move.”
Reading the book is a method to understand how Le Corbusier pay attention to the concept of economy and how he emphasizes the method of construction as a union
between architecture and engineering to help create meaningful work that moves. Showing
that the first one is falling, it provides methods and means to revalue it in a modern society.
Understanding the idea of home as a “machine for living”, a single entity accessible in all its forms, summable in all its parties.
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