The Robotism Of Architecture

摘要

This book takes you down a new channel of architectural adventure -not without the risks and perils, that all adventure pre-supposes; and Mr Etchells, in his preface, plays the part of able pilot. M Le Corbusier's theme is that architecture of our time should have the qualities of the machine. Efficiency and mass production are the watchwords. Houses are to be like the products of Mr Woolworth's shops -stamped out or cast in moulds and sold, I suppose, in ratios of 3d and 6d. For such houses, Nature will provide a new humanity. Robots without eyes -for eyes that have no vision cannot be educated to see. Man may be small, but he has two eyes and can focus distance, thereby measure things. He can raise or depress his vision by the movement of his head, up, down, right or left, and with little exertion can reverse all these aspects. Mass production would destroy in man the sense of three-dimensional limitations.