“A League of Nations building that ties itself to the ghosts of history is likely to become a haunt of ghosts.” Sigfried Giedion, 1927 Continue reading
According to Kaufmann, “Revolutionary architecture aimed to produce an impression through giant masses, the sheer weight of the forms, and also through the handling of materials.” Continue reading
The following letter, from the famed French architect Le Corbusier to the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment Anatolii Lunacharskii, has up to this point never available in English translation: 13 mai 1932 Monsieur Lounatcharsky Genève Cher Monsieur, Vous ne m’en voudrez … Continue reading
You say that he thought of saving the peasant by introducing industry into the village, but did not think at all of saving the city dweller. But you are wrong, my dear Le Corbusier. Continue reading
Where is Utopia, where the temperature is 64.4º? Continue reading
The city of today is a dying thing because it is not geometrical. We must replace our present haphazard arrangements with a uniform layout. Unless we do this there is no salvation. Continue reading
“The skyscrapers of New York are too small.” Le Corbusier, 1932 Continue reading
“There can be 25,000 people inside the Palace, and 50,000 more on the open-air platform.” Corbusier, The Radiant City Continue reading
“The President of the Work Soviet in Moscow, during the discussions prior to the adoption of our plans for the Tsentrosoiuz, concluded in these terms: ‘We will build the Tsentrosoiuz on pilotis because one day we would like to urbanize greater Moscow and solve the traffic problems.'” Le Corbusier Continue reading
This post includes pictures of Le Corbusier traveling in the USSR, attending conferences, building sites, and on one of Eisenstein’s movie sets (for The Old and the New). Continue reading