GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Le Corbusier, Haus Wittgenstein, Grain Elevator
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A more intellectual atempt to create a global culture around the enlightenment ideals of raionality, science, technology, and an opimisic belief in human progress and democracy. The modern movement in architecture and planning, around 1880-1930, an atempt to create a global culture through the landscape of the universal city, simpliied and standardised so that it was the same everywhere. If you create a landscape that expresses these ideals the landscape will have an impact on those who occupy these places (impress ideals on populaion through built environment they occupy) The essence of modernity: sculptured geometry, the perfecion of anonymity. There are no clues: no regional styles or building materials, no historic or cultural icons. Pure geometric forms: rectangle, plane, spheres, diagonal, intersecing and. It is generic, a no place landscape; anonymous loaing in some abstract space. Some ideal order, the product of abstract reason, the pure sculptured form, abstract modern art.
