Voiture Minimum: Le Corbusier and the Automobile by Antonio Amado

One of my favourite all time architects - especially the Modulor thoughts!, not to be confused with Modular. The graphic image below shows a good analysis the kind of stuff Corbu. loves to do

This will be good book to get for those car lovers interested in the classics, an then an architect's, (CORB's!) take on it!

Here's the article:.... Voiture Minimum: Le Corbusier and the Automobile is something different. A few pages in, I realized that I’d been gulled. Corb is in there, but only as a walk-on. Built around a few scrappy sketches from the thirties, Antonio Amado manages to lasso an entire era in which the automobile, not architecture, represented the ultimate design challenge. Think about it. While we take the suburban zeitgeist of SUVs, ATVs, minivans and Rovers for granted, in the 1930s it looked as though it would be the automobile that would transform cities. It would be the automobile that led material culture away from wood and rabbit glue, and it is the automobile that refined and popularized the formal language that today’s Young Turks aspire to apply to their buildings. The tale of Le Corbusier trying to duke it out with the auto industry is a bit like a varsity wrestler trying to make it in the Ultimate Fight Cage. He simply lacked the chops.

But he loved cars! Gatsby had nothing on Le Corbusier,.....

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