TEST 8

In his book, Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier famously stated: "a house is..."?

A machine for living in

In his book, Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier states: "The __________ is indubitably one of the products of the most intense selection in the range of modern industry. The War was an insatiable "client", never satisfied, always demanding better. The orders were to succeed at all costs and death followed a mistake remorselessly. We may affirm that the ____________ mobilized invention, intelligence and daring: imagination and cold reason. It is the same spirit that built the Parthenon."

Airplane

Who was Le Corbusier every morning?

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, the painter

In his book, Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier states: "a new epoch is replacing a dying one. _____________, a new factor in human affairs, has aroused a new spirit."

Machinery

In his book, Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier states: "This precision, this cleanness of execution go further back than our re-born mechanical sense. Phidias felt this way: the entablature of the __________ is a witness. So did the Egyptians when they polished the Pyramids. This at a time when Euclid and Pythagoras dictated to their contemporaries."

Parthenon

What was Le Corbusier's first major work?

Vers une architecture (Towards a new Architecture), Paris, c. 1923

In his book, Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier states: "The Parthenon is a product of selection applied to an established ________."When once a _________ is established, competition comes at once and violently into play. It is a fight; in order to win you must do better than your rival in every minute point, in the run of the whole thing and in all the details. A ______ is necessary for order in human effort. A _________ is established on sure bases, not capriciously but with the surety of something intentional and of a logic controlled by analysis and experiment."

standard

In his book, Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier states: "a serious minded architect, looking at it as an architect (i.e. a creator of organisms), will find in a ____________ his freedom from an age-long but contemptable enslavement to the past. The _________ is the first stage in the realisation of a world organised according to the new spirit."

steamship

In his book, Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier states: "Never __________ in your bedroom. It is not a clean thing to do and makes the room horribly untidy."

undress

In his book, Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier states: "Architecture has another meaning and other ends to pursue than showing construction and responding to needs (and by "needs" I mean utility, comfort and practical arrangement). ARCHITECTURE is the art above all others which achieves a state of platonic grandeur, mathematical order, speculation and the perception of the harmony which lies in emotional relationships. This is the AIM of architecture."Who was Le Corbusier addressing with the above text?

young architects