Towards a new architecture / [Book] / by Le Corbusier ; translated from the thirteenth French edition and with an introduction by Frederick Etchells.

By:

Corbusier, Le, 1887-1965

Contributor(s):

Etchells, Frederick

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : Toronto : Butterworth Architecture, 1989.Description: xix, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0750606274 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Vers une architecture. English

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DDC classification:

720 19

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Summary: In 'Vers une Architecture', published in 1923, Le Corbusier equates the pure forms of the machine with the pure forms of the Parthenon to illustrate his view of architecture as a question of mass rather than facades, and that machines are highly architectural. First published in English in 1927, it is the most influential architectural manifesto of modern times. .

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad	720 COR-T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		50269

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Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Rodker, 1927.

Translation of: Vers une architecture.

In 'Vers une Architecture', published in 1923, Le Corbusier equates the pure forms of the machine with the pure forms of the Parthenon to illustrate his view of architecture as a question of mass rather than facades, and that machines are highly architectural. First published in English in 1927, it is the most influential architectural manifesto of modern times. .

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