Sunday 3 May 2009

"Our good mates corbusier and gaston" (Miriam Elgon, 2009)

LE CORBUSIER (TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE(1927))


"THE HOUSE IS A MACHINE FOR LIVING IN"

"THE BUSINESS OF ARCHITECTURE IS TO ESTABLISH EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BY MEANS OF RAW MATERIALS."

"PASSION CAN CREATE DRAMA OUT OF INERT STONE."

"THE PLAN PROCEEDS FROM WITHIN TO WITHOUT- THE EXTERIOR IS THE RESULT OF AN INTERIOR."

"THE PRIMORDIAL INSTINCT OF EVERY HUMAN BEING IS TO ASSURE HIMSELF OF A SHELTER."

"THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF WORKERS IN SOCIETY TO-DAY NO LONGER HAVE DWELLINGS ADAPTED TO THEIR NEEDS. NEITHER THE ARTIZAN OR THE INTELLECTUAL."

"BUT MEN LIVE IN OLD HOUSES AND THEY HAVE NOT YET THOUGHT OF BUILDING HOUSES ADAPTED TO THEMSELVES."

"BY IMPOSING THE ORDER OF HIS FOOT OR ARM, HE HAS CREATED A UNIT WHICH REGULATES THE WHOLEWORK; AND THIS WORK IS ON HIS OWN SCALE...TO HIS OWN PROPORTION...COMFORTABLE FOR HIM...TO HIS MEASURE...INHARMONY WITH HIM."


(All the poetics of space stuff is on here already.xx)

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