http://www.architakes.com/?p=9575 on architecture in New York and beyond Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.architakes.com/?p=9575&cpage=1#comment-1860 Robin Ridless Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:41:08 +0000 http://www.architakes.com/?p=9575#comment-1860 In the early 1920s, the writer Walter Benjamin wrote: "In the first third of the last century no one yet had an inkling of how one must build with glass and iron. The problem has long since been resolved by hangars and silos." In Le Corbusier's 1923 manifesto that you mention, illustrative photographs included hangars and silos. This post captures the achievements of what was then conceived of as "the technological age." The link between the utilitarian architecture you describe and one of the first branded buildings shows how far we have traveled from an era when economic production, not handbags, was avant-garde. --RR In the early 1920s, the writer Walter Benjamin wrote: “In the first third of the last century no one yet had an inkling of how one must build with glass and iron.  The problem has long since been resolved by hangars and silos.”  In Le Corbusier’s 1923 manifesto that you mention, illustrative photographs included hangars and silos.  This post captures the achievements of what was then conceived of as “the technological age.”  The link between the utilitarian architecture you describe and one of the first branded buildings shows how far we have traveled from an era when economic production, not handbags, was avant-garde.  –RR

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