Textbook Discounter: Architecture: Toward an Architecture (Texts & Documents)

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Toward an Architecture (Texts & Documents)
	Author: Le Corbusier Publisher: Getty Publications Category: Book List Price: ~~$24.95~~ Buy New: $14.75 You Save: $10.20 (41%) New (31) Used (10) from $14.75 Sales Rank: 111700 Media: Paperback Pages: 360 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4 Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.3 ISBN: 0892368225 Dewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9780892368228 ASIN: 0892368225 Publication Date: October 15, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand new Book, ALL days Low Price !


Editorial Reviews: Product Description Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.