The End of a World and the Birth of Another

"We are living an epoch both dangerous 

and magnificent which embraces

desperately the end of a world and

the birth of another - a seeming confusion 

is its most immediate appearance."

Fernand Léger, 1947, in Maurice Fréchuret, 

Catalogue du Musée National Fernand Léger, 2006

Cornelis Van Eesteren & Frieda Fluck - Ascona - 1927

via Charnel House (again!)

Traffic

"On that 1st of October, 1924, I was assisting in the titanic rebirth of a new phenomenon... traffic."

Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow. 1924, quoted in All That is Solid Melts into Air, Marshall Berman, 1982

Cornelis Van Eesteren - Schematic representation of the optimal relationship between skyscrapers and traffic - 1926

Le Corbusier - La Cité Radieuse - 1924

Emilio Ambasz - Cooperative of a Mexican-American grape growers in California - 1979