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page028from Building Ideas11 Brinkman and Van der Vlugt – Van NelleFactory to wash! Our engineers provide for thesethings and they will be our builders.”8 Atthe same time he was also anxious to emphasise the unique contribution that thearchitect must make to the resolution of the design process, by recoveringthose abstract formal principles that had been obscured by the stylistic preoccupationsof the “academic” tradition. It was precisely this tradition, enshrined in the institutionalizedteaching of architecture in France through the influence of the Ecole des BeauxArts, that Reyner Banham had blamed for the apparent failure of the earlymodernists to deliver on the promise of an authentically machine-agearchitecture.
8 Le Corbursier, Towards a NewArchitecture, translated by Frederick Etchells, Architectural Press, London,1946, pp 18-19.
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