Towards a New Architecture;
Le Corbusier invites readers to stop thinking of architecture as a matter of historical style and instead open their eyes to the modern world. A historian, critic and architect, Le Corbusier creates a world of new forms by provocatively juxtaposing images of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars and ships: Not classical columns and Gothic arches, but ships, turbines, elevators, airplanes and machine products, which Le Corbusier said were indices of 20th-century imagination.The design principles include Le Corbusier's following five points: Pilotis (columns), roof garden, floor plan, tall windows and open facades. Fundamentally calling for a radical change in architecture, Le Corbusier's book has had a lasting impact on the architectural profession, serving as a manifesto for a generation of architects, anathema for many others and, given the time in which such a text was written, arguably a critical architectural theory.
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