LE CORBUSIER ET PIERRE JEANNERET OEUVRE COMPLETE 1910-1929 Publige par W. Boesiger et 0. Stonorov Introduction et textes par Le Corbusier LES EDITIONS D'ARCHITECTUREPara, 2 septembre 1956 Cher amt Martenson, (Cert tie tuchant do parcourir vow eahlera« THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHITECTURAL RECORD». Tout abord perce quien merece de trowoer uctgue chone de a off dans ele pote lvntatae Ali, sade dew forte uatortalee, Halo stout parce quon y découore fant defo uoéne, de tendvese pour arehectare ot le dé fervon tattetnre une phdlonphie des chess, Je erie qu'on ne mesre par oeore aus que le monte enter stem tte refonte, fandamentalomen! — qu'une noveele eft talon at nd, que rin du pata ne pe serie & Peper, que tou dt dire nee een expres Can noel Eat de coneenee etude du past peut dive [eon Ton quite lv enstgnmente academiques, fon tant scutes, tracer le tmp et Fespase, 4 es rotations tionghanies ou modesies quien putement exprime le sche humaine Iarchieture dl tie atrchie taveplanche d dees ie daft ager dans le carat dana la ff ana te eur, soant tol, prouoe amour Aimer ce qu eo jae of co quel enable, inontf ard, La eeuon et wn gue, rin de pa Comment enrctr sx pulsancen de création? Nom pat om #abomant A dex reouee areilestre, mae en prtant on décownetes dans te domaine innate des riceses de la nate Ld eal orament ta logon archioctare: a gniee tabard! Oa, ele Pl, ete exettude, elle iniveatale réailé dex combinatans des engendromentsharmenteus dent ta nature effete iectace on ‘chaque chor: Du dodans au dehors: tn perfection veri: Plants, animaus, arbres ate, ter faines on mntagnen, Meme, pusute harmonic des catastrophes nafureicy des cetaciyanes sefogiuen ele Quote te yen!” Sortir de Keto dot debate Professionnel Se dinner x pusonnament @ etude de ration det chows que Tarehectare ten thause deca spontantment 1 conacquenee Brver ler «éevters(Lécole «Corbu + au mime ire ue Féenle Vignle — je pave en sapplic). Pas de formate, pas de rue ius detours de mata Nous women ot deb ela decoanere achicetuale dea tenga moderaen. Qu te totes parte surgient {es propoations father. Dans con sn, nus poutrons pier dun tales. Il wen ant pas aujourt hls mate element DU STYLE, tanidie de le temue morale dane foule waore erie, oérinbloment cr Jo nourals qu ler aneectee — nom po senloment le Gudlanta — prennent ur erayin pone deiner une plant, une eae, primer Fest un arbre, harmonte fun coglllog, la formate dev naagen, le Jou lee des agus au tetalent re able pour dicouurir fon expresous eeceves eine force Inlcrere Qua te main (ae la tte dei) se pastione dette lime enguti. de oorais que tos archilectes denkencnt Féie mie de twits — lex got ln plas riches eplitucloment (el mom les plus indigent fer _pu pl le pla sro, ile aoten!tucerts & tutes choses (et mim ue ferme tame toe sce tan eur spilt), Harchtcture, eet une tourmare Seget non pa tn mtr Je oate plus toi: Tarcitect deorait dre fe plus senile, Ie pas renscgné des eomnoiseuse art. Il eorat Soger de pre ‘ction plague ef eatitiue mime encore que ce scales. 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EF CUASSER 14 BETISE. 4 vous lout en bunne Fateraté Avchieces Mans ete Late adronée a8 Groape d KH _¢ de Jokamnesborg (Teatesal) a Toeemsion de lost bpubication sun manifest partie en tobe 1bPari, 25 aplmior 136 My dear Martens, ute very moving experience fo tun oor the peg of your “SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHIPECTURAL RECORD, Fisly, boca one te smaned to find something 0 otal emanating fram adnan point in-Africa wich Us far byond the eqeaoral ford; ut [yl more becmae one con dicocer sa mack of ous faith nit, sich soelude for arietur, and wo fercent a dee fo aan eounte pil 1 belene re do mot yet sufciotlyrealine Dat fhe mole ron ix the mein pot. end that « fundamentally nem ciation ‘4 bsing born which nothing of the past con help ae fo eeprge —- ao that canything mate rorought afresh tn order fo be {aici of the daring of no cones Study of the pos can be frtfal prided roe abandon avedenie fuching and {Ct our curtosly mander sctoe ne and space 10 thew eolteatine, qrandion 4s mode, Which tape expremed arn atl Ina pur form, Architecture mt be torn atay from the dransing board 10 fll oo? heals al heads ~ But sbooe all out heart ot foo of our lve fort Wer ust ear 10 tne a Juan si, rércfal amt ers, Reson (6 ly a aul, 0 Ho ae me to enrieh ear velloe poner? Nol by mbsertbing lo archiectural revi ul by undertaking voyages of dscoery Into the meskauatite domain of Nature! "Beauty ft! athe tre leon of wchtetare, We find tn her adsptabty, er preciion, inthe comcincing realty of the spectacle of her harmonious combinations aed reins rohich he oflee us tn everything: a merely OF perfection that eteiot its om srnardnet It insure ta pantera rect, tm its of sak. plane oF mounting — pe “oon in the perfect harmony of natorlealudrophin,goloteealcins, fe fen your eyer, burs the stat jacket of profesional ‘Teuaona! Droole yourtoes 1 rholehvartedy to audying the mraning of igs hal archiectare spontaneously becomes a Ineotabt contequence Brwak darn the idea of schools” *Corbus” own partieatar schol no less than the “Schoo of Vines. Have done mth formal Ir of the tad and slcknse fon the tvehald of diccong the architecture of the modern age. Let ue have fresh proposal from caery quarter of the lobe. In a contaris time rez eon begin o alk of "a ayle™ To-day Toe dae nol All 8 ean Goleta think OF STYLE tw tel) — that ts to sy the moral preity of ery oor that truly and gonuney create 1 could vith that archicets thomscloe, not meray arcitctralstudens, somtimes tsk up thir pacla fo draw a plant 0) 1 Teaf — or to exprete the sinileance of «tre, the esental harmony of tel the aivatifcaton of the coud, the eoor-changing {hi and flow of moaoe a pay upon fhe sande and ducer the scerton pase of wcprsion of the fer free informing ll ‘hee things May their hand (guided by ther heads) rome enhastatc for thee inlinate inoetigationt! want architect to come the oery elite of society — men nth the rica inatad of the poorest, rarromea and most common: place infllects anda intligence open 10 oervthing (inate of having an intelligence ae hermetically sealed by Profesional ‘becllom ae that of fron). drdietare ie # hail of mind, not» profeton 7 wt tok further Into the future wl. The architect must become the moxt xraion and the best informa of arLloere. te rast bean een beter judge of paste and acute sales Dhan of is own allan. Tt by eirtue of nll radiance, by ia ste and by ts grace, that areileture must Bring the men ef our nero mechanical etiztin, not just set wy, bu Jou Hall Our tas today Uo ight this fame — AND TO BAN IS STUPIDITY! Fratenaly (0 all of yom, aaa Aare later aldesed to 4 Grosp of Madera Aecitot ia Joliunaeabung om the ocanon of «manifesta publi | behons