I just read an interesting book called " Towards an architecture" by Le Corbusier. He really said interesting things about the architecture world. He said this: " Our engineers are healthy and virile, active and useful, balanced and happy in their work. Our architects are disillusioned and unemployed, boastful or peevish. This is because there will soon be nothing more for them to do." This is another interesting sentence of the book: Now, to-day, it is the engineer who knows, who knows the best way to construct, to heat, to ventilate, to light. Is it not true?"
"The engineer who proceeds by knowledge shows the way and holds the truth."
These are interesting sentences which describes some current problems with architecture, because architecture has been dulled by engineering and I am not talking about architecture as a career. Not architecture as buildings or houses.
First, that's an architect's opinion you're citing.
Second, it was written nine decades ago when the vast majority of architects were still designing one historical-revival style building after another. Meanwhile, engineers had been devising innovative structure types using new technology for some time... leading the way "toward a [new] architecture." This book was a promotional pamphlet for that cause.
And for godssake PLEASE don't waste your time on Fountainhead - that bit of silliness masquerading as a novel has done more to discredit the profession of architecture than has 40 years of strip malls in the US combined.
Why is civil engineer's opinion worthier than architect's opinion?
I just read an interesting book called " Towards an architecture" by Le Corbusier. He really said interesting things about the architecture world. He said this: " Our engineers are healthy and virile, active and useful, balanced and happy in their work. Our architects are disillusioned and unemployed, boastful or peevish. This is because there will soon be nothing more for them to do." This is another interesting sentence of the book: Now, to-day, it is the engineer who knows, who knows the best way to construct, to heat, to ventilate, to light. Is it not true?"
"The engineer who proceeds by knowledge shows the way and holds the truth."
These are interesting sentences which describes some current problems with architecture, because architecture has been dulled by engineering and I am not talking about architecture as a career. Not architecture as buildings or houses.
read the fountainhead
i'm pretty sure we're all very well adjusted, thank you very much.
First, that's an architect's opinion you're citing.
Second, it was written nine decades ago when the vast majority of architects were still designing one historical-revival style building after another. Meanwhile, engineers had been devising innovative structure types using new technology for some time... leading the way "toward a [new] architecture." This book was a promotional pamphlet for that cause.
What citizen said.
And for godssake PLEASE don't waste your time on Fountainhead - that bit of silliness masquerading as a novel has done more to discredit the profession of architecture than has 40 years of strip malls in the US combined.
damn...donna is now in the running for most emphatic statement of 2011
The Fountainhead is not realistic?? With the resurgence of Atlas Shrugged we all better be prepared for an onslaught of Fountainhead-edness!
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