ABSTRACT
In Vers une architecture (Towards an Architecture), Le Corbusier, a pioneer of modern architecture, famously proclaimed a new direction for architects, meant to fundamentally reshape how we design and interact with buildings. Envisioning style as the direct outcome of socio-cultural context, and as such, always in flux, he directed architects to focus on form instead. Thus the stylized contraptions of art deco and eclecticism were to be abandoned for exterior forms that directly derived from the interior, with style to be organically set by the epoch. The technological advancements of engineering were beginning to enable architectural forms well beyond the scope of what architecture had previously perceived. Engineers, Le Corbusier (1931, 31) provoked, “overwhelm with their calculations our expiring architecture.” A new architecture must thus emerge, that utilizes technology to present solutions to how we organize walls and space, light and shade, in ways that are organic, living, and reflexive. Form thus becomes the result of this reflexivity, and not the result of an imposed style.
