Le Corbusier
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Vers une architecture, usually translated as Towards a New Architecture, is collection of essays by Le Corbusier. The essays, which originally appeared in the French journal L'Esprit Nouveau, set out Le Corbusier's theory for an architecture for the Modern Age. Briefly, he espoused the cause of an architecture that would be true to its time, a product of its own age rather than a throwback to classical or Renaissance architecture dictums.
Originally published in 1923, Vers une architecture remains one of the seminal texts of modern architecture. Architectural author Reyner Banham deemed it "The only piece of architectural writing that will be classed among the essential literature of the 20th century."
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