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philosophy

Bookmarked monoskop.org/images/b/bf/Corbusier_Le_Towards_a_New_Archi…

[on machines for living] A seriously-minded architect…will find in a steamship his freedom from an age-long but contemptible enslavement to the past.

  • Eyes Which Do Not See, Towards a New Architecture - Le Corbusier, 1931

Something to aspire to. How much is what we’re building in 2026 “mere decoration” versus “freedom from our enslavement to the past”?

The Cunarder “Aquitania”