Le Corbusier

The house is a machine for living in. -Le Corbusier House 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 fascinated with the industrial Age. The Industrial Age brought a multitude of crude materials for architects to work with, as well as new processes to utilize these revolutionary materials. Le Corbusier sought-after(a) to coalesce these new ideas into his 5 points towards a new architecture. The five internal points set out above represent a fundament all toldy new aesthetic. Nothing is left to us of the architecture of past epochs (Conrads, 1970, p. 100) By combination the newly readily available materials of steel and concrete with the process of smokestack production Le Corbusier invents a house that embodies a machine. No yearlong is the house simply a decorative container to live in. The house that utilizes Le Corbusiers 5 points actively works to improv e the lives of its inhabitants just as any successful machine of the Industrial Age.As seen in House 14, all attention is focused on satisfying the 5 points and consequentially bony ornament is disregarded. Rather the building as a whole could be described a monument to the Industrial age. The clean-cut corners and lines evoke a sense of the ordered factory and sharp contrasts remind viewers of the corroboratory and negative results of Industrialism. Industry, overwhelming us like a flood which rolls on towards its destined ends, has furnished us with new tools adapted to this new epoch, alive(p) by the new spirit. (Conrads, 1970, p. 61) Corbusiers idea of the new spirit is transparent in his 5 points. The new machine house improves peoples lives by helping them adapt to and live in the boisterous measure of the Industrial Age. The ceiling of the house is covered in a roof garden to give its inhabitants a place to relax from the incessant clamouring of the new age. The house is set off the ground on pilotes to break dance the inhabitant from the dirty byproducts of Industrialism.This sense of cleanliness is also emphasized in the whitewash walls giving a sense of purity and sanitation. Economic law necessarily 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 using the comparatively 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 law inevitably governs our acts and our thoughts. (Conrads, 1970, p. 61)