Le Corbusier, Excerpts from Towards a New Architecture

What are three reminders to architects from Le

Corbusier?

• Aesthetic, Lines and Sketches

• Liner, Airplanes and Automobiles

• Mass, Surface and Plan

• Forms, Shapes and Dimensions

To whom is the term “eyes which do not see” referred in

these texts?

• The architects who remained "stuck in the old styles"

• Blind people

• The readers

• The new style of architecture

What is the purpose of construction according to Le Corbusier?

• To create aesthetically pleasing buildings

• To make things hoed together

• To be the main focus of a structure

• Le Corbusier didn't mention anything about construction in the text.

What is the purpose of architecture according to Le Corbusier?

• To be solely practical

• To further develop society

• Le Corbusier didn't mention the purpose of architecture in the text.

• To move us

What kind of artists are "champions" of the time, according to Le Corbusier?

(2 answers)

• Architects

• Painters

• Sculptors

• Musicians

What are the advantages of primary, geometrical forms?

(Check all that apply)

• They can be clearly appreciated

• They are seldom used, so they are unique

• They evoke no emotion

• They are satisfying by their geometry

• They are understandable through mathematics

What is introduced as the “necessity of order”?

• Architecture

• Mass, Surface and Plan

• Regulating lines

• Creation of the mind

A plan proceeds from “within to without”. What does that mean?

• The exterior is a result of an interior

• The plan should gradually lose elements

• The interior is a result of an exterior

• The plan should only be completed in your head

What is an engineer supposed to achieve by mathematical calculation?

• Perfect symmetry

• Harmony

• A grand scale

• Always the golden ratio

What does Le Corbusier refer to with the phrase: "the mass-production spirit"

(Check all that apply)

• The spirit of constructing mass-production houses.

• The spirit of selling mass-production houses.

• The spirit of conceiving mass-production houses.

• The spirit of living in mass-production houses.

• The spirit of destroying mass-production houses.