Le Corbusier

The sign of the zodiac is a machine for living in. -Le Corbusier fireside 14 at Weissenhof http//mpdrolet. tumblr. com/pos/34901891099/weissenhof-estate-le-corbusier-peter-gossel. As with many other architects of his time, Le Corbusier was fascinate with the Industrial Age. The Industrial Age brought a multitude of bare-ass materials for architects to bailiwick with, as well as new passagees to utilize these revolutionary materials. Le Corbusier sought to coalesce these new ideas into his 5 points towards a new architecture. The fin essential points set out above represent a essentially new aesthetic. Nothing is left to us of the architecture of past epochs (Conrads, 1970, p. 100) By combining the newly readily available materials of steel and concrete with the process of mass production Le Corbusier invents a house that embodies a machine. No longer is the house simply a decorative container to live in. The house that utilizes Le Corbusiers 5 points actively works to improve the lives of its inhabitants vindicatory as any successful machine of the Industrial Age.As seen in suffer 14, all attention is focused on satisfying the 5 points and consequentially superfluous ornament is disregarded. Rather the building as a altogether could be described a monument to the Industrial age. The clean-cut corners and lines trounce a sense of the ordered factory and sharp contrasts remind viewers of the positive and negative results of Industrialism. Industry, overwhelming us like a alluvion which rolls on towards its destined ends, has furnished us with new tools adapted to this new epoch, animated by the new animate. (Conrads, 1970, p. 61) Corbusiers idea of the new spirit is evident in his 5 points. The new machine house improves flocks lives by helping them adapt to and live in the crude times of the Industrial Age. The roof of the house is covered in a roof garden to give its inhabitants a place to relax from the regular clamor of the new age. The house is set off the ground on pilotes to separate the inhabitant from the dirty byproducts of Industrialism.This sense of cleanliness is also emphasized in the whitewashed walls giving a sense of purity and sanitation. Economic police force inevitably governs our acts and our thoughts. (Conrads, 1970, p. 61) As with any mass produced machine, cost is an issue. Corbusier had to settle for victimization the relatively cheap materials of stucco over brick to allow his house to be mass-produced. Le Corbusier revolutionized the house into an efficient machine with his 5 points. Economic uprightness inevitably governs our acts and our thoughts. (Conrads, 1970, p. 61)