Le Corbusier

The house is a machine for living in. -Le Corbusier suffer 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 impudent materials for architects to work with, as well as new processes to utilize these revolutionary materials. Le Corbusier sought to coalesce these new ideas into his 5 points towards a new architecture. The five essential points set out preceding(prenominal) represent a fundamentally 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 make 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 come through in. The house that utilizes Le Corbusiers 5 points actively works to imp rove 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 superfluous 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 positive and shun results of Industrialism. Industry, overwhelming us like a flood which rolls on towards its destined ends, has furnished us with new tools changeed to this new epoch, animated by the new spirit. (Conrads, 1970, p. 61) Corbusiers idea of the new spirit is evident in his 5 points. The new machine house improves peoples lives by helping them adapt to and live in the boisterous times of the Industrial Age. The roof of the house is covered in a roof garden to give its inhabitants a bewilder to relax from the incessant clamor of the new age. The house is set off t he 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 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 exploitation 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 law inevitably governs our acts and our thoughts. (Conrads, 1970, p. 61)