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'''Le Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture'''
*The airplane is the product of close selection. The lesson of the airplane lies in the logic which governed the statement of the problem and its realization.
The problem o f the house has not yet been stated.
Nevertheless there do exist standards for the dwelling-house. Machinery contains in itself the factor of economy, which makes for selection.
The house is a machine for living in. p 4.
*If we eliminate from our hearts and minds all dead concepts in regard to the house, and look at the question from a critical and objective point of view, we shall arrive at the "House- Machine,” the mass-production house, healthy (and morally so too) and beautiful in the same way that the working tools and instruments which accompany our existence are beautiful. p 6-7.
*We are to be pitied for living in unworthy houses, since they ruin our health and our morale. It is our lot to have become sedentary- creatures ; our houses gnaw at us in our sluggishness, like a consumption. We shall soon need far too many sanatoriums. We are to be pitied. Our houses disgust us ; we fly from them and frequent restaurants and night clubs ; or we gather together in our houses gloomily and secretly like wretched animals ; we are becoming demoralized. p 14.
Engineers fabricate the tools of their time. Everything, that is to say, except houses and moth-eaten boudoirs. p 14.
A house is a machine for living in. p 91.
'''Gaston Bachelard. The Poetics of Space'''
