Dream Haus Factories
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For Le Corbusier, the development of ideal types for certain kinds of building, and their subsequent dissemination as standard types, was one of the most important tasks of architecture. Out of the alliance between such cultural achievements and social responsibility grew, as if by itself, as the emergence of the Parthenon demonstrated, all the superior beauty – for Le Corbusier 'the overplus necessary only to men of the highest type' (Le Corbusier 1927: 135–138).
Le Corbusier argued here as a representative of a whole generation of architects who, at the beginning of the twentieth century looked upon the potential of industrialisation with downright euphoria. Convinced by the effectiveness of artistically planned interventions in the service of a freely developing society, he called for standards not only on technical and structural design considerations, but also on economic, social and – especially – design grounds. Through mass production, the house would finally be freed from ideological and sentimental ballast. Yet thanks to prefabricated structures, our suburbs sprout ever more single-family houses which the visionary probably would have despised as sentimental and nostalgic, what he called 'le poème de l'été de la Saint-Martin'. The dream of the factory-made house became the dream house from a catalogue.
Erschienen in: Christiane Cantauw, Anne Caplan, Elisabeth Timm (Hg.): Housing the Family. Locating the Single-Family Home in Germany
Dream House Factories
Publikation
— zur Publikation bei Jovis
— zum Artikel (PDF)
For Le Corbusier, the development of ideal types for certain kinds of building, and their subsequent dissemination as standard types, was one of the most important tasks of architecture. Out of the alliance between such cultural achievements and social responsibility grew, as if by itself, as the emergence of the Parthenon demonstrated, all the superior beauty – for Le Corbusier 'the overplus necessary only to men of the highest type' (Le Corbusier 1927: 135–138).
Le Corbusier argued here as a representative of a whole generation of architects who, at the beginning of the twentieth century looked upon the potential of industrialisation with downright euphoria. Convinced by the effectiveness of artistically planned interventions in the service of a freely developing society, he called for standards not only on technical and structural design considerations, but also on economic, social and – especially – design grounds. Through mass production, the house would finally be freed from ideological and sentimental ballast. Yet thanks to prefabricated structures, our suburbs sprout ever more single-family houses which the visionary probably would have despised as sentimental and nostalgic, what he called 'le poème de l'été de la Saint-Martin'. The dream of the factory-made house became the dream house from a catalogue.
Erschienen in:
Christiane Cantauw, Anne Caplan, Elisabeth Timm (Hg.): Housing the Family. Locating the Single-Family Home in Germany