CITY AT SEA

摘要

Le corbusier. One cannot talk about architecture and ships without mentioning Corb. In the Esprit Nouveau essays, later republished in 1923 as Vers une Architecture, he argued that the new spirit of design was already apparent in ocean liners, aircraft and cars. These represented everything that architecture should be: fit for purpose, functional yet beautiful, not a rivet out of place. He chose photographs of ventilation trumpets and funnels to illustrate his theme. High-tech 1970s architecture owes much to this line of inquiry.