Le Corbusier’s Car

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It shouldn’t be surprising that the man who created the idea of houses ‘machines for living in’ should have penned a distinctively beetle like creation as long ago as 1929.

With its bug-like fastback and modular construction, modernist architect Le Corbusier sketched his idea for an automobile for the everyman in response to the growing dependency on petrol in the rapidly growing cities of the years between the wars.

Thing is, the car itself evolved with whole idea of modernism and the city. That’s why the car resounds so heavily in our imaginations. An interesting piece by architectural critic Jonathan Glancey here.



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One Response to “Le Corbusier’s Car”

  1. “after the Second World War, whole towns and cities, from Los Angeles to Milton Keynes via Brasilia, were designed, and re-designed, to cope with and reflect the high-speed machinations of the automobile. In a purely abstract sense, this phenomenon advanced the curious beauty of the clover-leaf US freeway junction, concrete flyovers, spiral garage ramps and buildings that looked as if they were made for the car rather than for human beings”

    Interesting point. How will the cities of thevfuture look in regards to this?