GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Haus Wittgenstein
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19: simplification, standardization: the modern city as. Metropolis (1927): fritz lang"s bizarre but famous film set in a generic futuristic city; a city of the imagination. Downtown, toronto: a global landscape, pure form: buildings express geometry in abstract space. De-contextualized: the end of geography and history in a universal form, the product of modernity: the enlightenment play of reason, geometry, science and technology, simplification and standardization in a new global building form. Le corbusier"s 1922 imaginary sketch of the modern city: high rises, in a park, freeways, bird"s eye view, the city for the masses, packing cases (boxes) stacked apartments, assembly line freeways. The cultural expression of industrial (fordist) society: rejection of traditional landscapes. Decoration and crime (adolf loos, vienna: slogans: form follows function. Less is more: machine the prototypical cultural form: a house is a machine for living in a street is a factory for producing traffic le corbusier, the wittgenstein house, vienna (1926-1928)
