VOITURE MINIMUM

Le Corbusier, who famously called a house ?a machine for living,? was fascinated?even obsessed?by another kind of machine, the autom obile. His writings were strewn with references to autos: ?If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthet ic would be formed with surprising precision,? he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his ?white phase of the twenties and th irties, he insisted that his buildings be photographed with a modern automobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the the oretical...[Read more]