California Literary Review

Articles written for the California Literary Review:

• Architecture and Modernism
  Posted on 26 Mar 2007 in Architecture, Art & Design
  

  For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency – was more likely to be found in a 40,000-kilowatt electricity turbine or a low-pressure ventilating fan. It was to these machines that his books accorded the reverential photographs which previous architectural writers had reserved for cathedrals and opera houses.