GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Le Corbusier, Mass Production
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A more intellectual attempt to create a global culture the enlightens ideas of race. To create a global culture through the landscape of universal city. Universal city will be simplified and standardized so that its same everywhere. The essence of modernity; sculptured geometry like piece of modern art simplified, purely abstract. There are no clues no regional building styles or building materials no historic or cultural icons that landscape could be anywhere it"s a universal landscape. What do we see? pure geometric forms: rectangle plane spheres diagonal, intersecting and floating in some abstract space. That"s no vegetation no historical or cultural context. Creative years,1880-1930, progressive views it wanted to improve society through reason science and tech and improve the human condition. A key fig was swiss architect he sketched the city of future just like metropolis, pure imagination nothing existed like this. High rises has got a bit of open spaces like the park hence.
