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When Cathedrals Were White: A Journey to the Land of Indecisive People

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When Cathedrals Were White: A Journey to the Land of Indecisive People
14.99 €
In 1935, Le Corbusier visited the United States for the first time at the invitation of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A kind of report on this trip formed the basis of this book, first published in French in 1937 and translated into English after the war, in 1946. The great innovator could not but admire the skyscrapers of New York and the rapid industrial development of America in the XX century. Elevators, elevators, subways, verticals and horizontals of Manhattan cause his burning interest. Le Corbusier is inspired by the rhythm of New York, its new music (Armstrong's hot jazz) and new sociality. In his poetic account, he first articulates the idea of the vertical city, which a century later would be developed by another architect in love with the Big Apple, Rem Koolhaas. America reminds Le Corbusier of the formative era of Europe, a time when technological and social progress were inseparable, when cathedrals were white and the most advanced buildings of their time. His only reproach to the "nation of athletes" is that Americans are indecisive people who cannot keep up with the technological leaps in their aspirations, because the skyscrapers could have been taller.
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