Voiture Minimum. Le Corbusier and the Automobile

Author: Antonio Amado Lorenzo
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0262015366

Voiture Minimum. Le Corbusier and the Automobile

Le Corbusier, who famously called a house "a machine for living," was fascinated--even obsessed--by another kind of machine, the automobile. Download Voiture Minimum. Le Corbusier and the Automobile from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. His writings were strewn with references to autos: "If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with surprising precision," he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his "white phase" of the twenties and thirties, he insisted that his buildings photographed with a modern automobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936, entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition, submitting plans for "a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality," the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier's energetic pr Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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