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page027from Building Ideas10 Brinkman and Vander Vlugt – Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam, 1927-29.(Neil Jackson) In contrast to Fuller’s somewhat blindand deterministic application of new technologies in architecture, Le Corbusierwas well aware of the need to mediate between the “raw” engineering of theproblems of shelter and the shared cultural expectations of a society in needof reassurance amidst the uncertainties of historical change. For all thelatter’s rhetoric on the beauty of the great ships, aeroplanes and automobilesin the opening chapters of Towards a New Architecture, he also went on todiscuss in equivalent detail the architecture of ancient Greece, Rome and theItalian Renaissance. In the section entitled “The Engineer’s Aesthetic” thebegan by claiming that since engineers were “active and useful, balanced andhappy in their work”, they would soon be monopolizing the building process,since: “We no longer have the money to erect historical souvenirs. At the sametime, we have got
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