The Poem of the Right Angle (Le poème de l'angle droit) is a series of 19 paintings and corresponding writings composed by the influential Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier between 1947 and 1953 and first published in book format as a limited edition of 250 copies in 1955. Aside from his seminal manifesto Toward an Architecture, The Poem of the Right Angle is considered to be his most lucid synthesis of personal maxims...

The great revolutionary architect’s probing analysis of urban problems and their origins, and his bold solutions, which include the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris, and the more developed scheme for a "City of Three Million Inhabitants." Introduction. Foreword. l33 black-and-white illustrations. 82 black-and-white halftones.
...

Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations....

Partiendo de un enfoque general de las motivaciones que conformaron la arquitectura moderna, Le Corbusier desarrolla lo que llama ‘ la adquisición de un instrumental". Analizando paso a paso, los distintos problemas del urbanismo: uso de la tierra. Circulación, densidad urbana, tipologia de vivienda, centros de trabajo y recreación, localización industrial... proponiendo soluciones que hoy permanecen vigentes y que son parte del pensamiento proyectual contemporáneo.

Como concebir el urbanismo es la obra no de un teórico, sino de una personalidad que verifico en la practica la validez de sus idea. Publicado en Francia en el año 1943 durante la ocupación, mantiene el carácter de un documento imprescindible sobre el tema....