Le Corbusier's lyrical legacy.

...산업화 분수령의 절정이었고,어느 한부분에 국한된 변혁은 아니지만,  세계대전으로 공산품 ,군수품의 수요충당, 격납고들 군사시설의 필연적 확충은 생산시설의 근대화를 부르고, 인류가 본격적으로 기계시대를 맞는 시기가 있었다. 1900도 초반에서 중반에 이르는 기간이라 할 수 있다.
당시의 기계주의적 사유의 틀에서 건축설계도 이와같은 맥락의 큰 조류를 벗어나지는 못하였을 것이다. 그 시대에 건축의 은유적 심장을 박동시키고자  1일인 마음을 불사르며, 건축의 기조를 새로이 태동시킨 건축가 -그가 Le Corbusier일 것이다.  유럽,미국,일본,...오늘날도 그에 대한 연구는 활발하고 지성적이고 무게를 갖춘 유럽,일본,미국의 건축관련 전문 출판사에서는 그에 대한 책을 계속 발행/재판 하고,시장에서는 그의 건축을 주제로한 책이 팔린다. 거울은  비추어 보려고 하는 능등적 에너지에 의해 그 내면의 세계를 열어 줄 것이다.
 ...............  어느 건축가가 이토록 책의 주된 context로서 끊이지 않는 주목을 받는가.  

작금에 Barbican (영국) 에서 Le Corbusier의 전시회가 열리고 있다.

3 March, 2009

“Le Corb” emerged from a period of vast technological change in the first half of the 20th century, Cohen explained. He was fascinated by moving objects like boats, aircraft and automobiles. The production, utility and aestheticism of these modes of transport - from the ocean liner, to the Zeppelin and the racing car - informed his approach to housing and cities design.

Such was the influence of machines on Le Corbusier that in L’Spirit Nouveau, the influential journal he founded, he urged his readers to approach design as if they were examining the inner workings of these vehicles.

Cohen said: “Le Corbusier noted that if the problem of housing - of the apartment - was studied like a car chassis we would see our houses rapidly transformed and improved. If houses were built industrially, mass produced like chassis, we would soon see forms emerge, and an aesthetic would be formulated with surprising precision. If a human body can be pushed through a very narrow automobile door, it could be possible to build much smaller houses.”

In this enlightening and scholarly lecture, Cohen revealed that Le Corbusier had greater sympathy with American engineers than he did with his intellectual peers in Europe.

But in spite of the architect’s admiration for technology and his passion for “the machine age”, Le Corbusier’s attempts to design means of transportation were in the main theoretical. A design for an ocean liner, for example, was thwarted. As it turned out, this failure cleared the path to begin innovations in architecture.

Cohen speculated that this may have been a blessing in disguise, concluding: “Le Corbusier’s lyricism in dealing with machines remained essentially verbal, yet it was precisely this dreamlike dimension that gave him his meaning and significance.”