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.

Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Chair in the History of Architecture at New York University`s Institute of Fine Arts. He has written extensively on Le Corbusier`s work. John Goodman is a translator and art historian. He has rendered some thirty books from French into English.

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