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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 of 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.
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.
*When a problem is properly stated, in our epoch, it inevitably finds its solution.
The problem of the house has not yet been stated. p 110.
*LET US STATE THE PROBLEM. Let us shut our eyes to what exists.
*A house : a shelter against heat, cold, rain, thieves and the inquisitive. A receptacle for light and sun. A certain number of cells appropriated to cooking, work, and personal life.
*A room : a surface over which one can walk at ease, a bed on which to stretch yourself, a chair in which to rest or work, a work-table, receptacles in which each thing can be put at once in its right place.
*The number o f rooms : one for cooking and one for eating. One for work, one to wash yourself in and one for sleep.
*Such are the standards of the dwelling.p 114-5.