"The Engineer’s Æsthetic and Architecture—two things that march together and follow one from the other—the one at its full height, the other in an unhappy state of retrogression. The Engineer, inspired by the law of Economy and governed by mathematical calculation, puts us in accord with universal la"
"Our eyes are constructed to enable us to see forms in light. Primary forms are beautiful forms because they can be clearly appreciated. Architects to-day no longer achieve these simple forms. Working by calculation, engineers employ geometrical forms, satisfying our eyes by their geometry and our un"
"A mass is enveloped in its surface, a surface which is divided up according to the directing and generating lines of the mass; and this gives the mass its individuality. Architects to-day are afraid of the geometrical constituents of surfaces. The great problems of modern construction must have a ge"
"The Plan is the generator. Without a plan, you have lack of order, and wilfulness. The Plan holds in itself the essence of sensation. The great problems of to-morrow, dictated by collective necessities, put the question of “plan” in a new form. Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of "
"An inevitable element of Architecture. The necessity for order. The regulating line is a guarantee against wilfulness. It brings satisfaction to the understanding. The regulating line is a means to an end; it is not a recipe. Its choice and the modalities of expression given to it are an integral pa"
"A great epoch has begun. There exists a new spirit. There exists a mass of work conceived in the new spirit; it is to be met with particularly in industrial production. Architecture is stifled by custom. The “styles” are a lie. Style is a unity of principle animating all the work of an epoch, the re"
"The airplane is the product of close selection. The lesson of the airplane lies in the logic which governed the statement of the problem and its realization. The problem of the house has not yet been stated. Nevertheless there do exist standards for the dwelling-house. Machinery contains in itself t"
作者简介
勒·柯布西耶(Le Corbusier,1887.10.6-1965-8-27),20世纪最著名的建筑大师、城市规划家和作家。是现代建筑运动的激进分子和主将,被称为“现代建筑的旗手”。他和瓦尔特·格罗皮乌斯(Walter Gropius )、路德维格·密斯·凡·德·罗(Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,原名Maria Ludwig Michael)、赖特(Frank Lloyd Wright)并称为“现代建筑派或国际形式建筑派的主要代表”。