For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional relationships by means of raw materials."

The first major exposition of his ideas appeared in Vers une Architecture (1923), a compilation of articles originally written by Le Corbusier for his own avant-garde magazine, L'Esprit Nouveau. The present volume is an unabridged English translation of the 13th French edition of that historic manifesto, in which Le Corbusier expounded his technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, relation of form to function, the "mass-production spirit," and much else. A principal prophet of the "modern" movement in architecture,...

对瑞士出生的建筑师和城市规划师勒-柯布西耶（Charles-Édouard Jeanneret，1887-1965）来说，建筑是一门高尚的艺术，一个崇高的使命，建筑师在其中结合了造型发明、智力猜测和高等数学，超越了单纯的功利需求，超越了 "风格"，实现了精神的纯粹创造，"通过原材料的方式建立情感关系"。

他的思想的第一个主要阐述出现在《Vers une Architecture》（1923）中，这是勒-柯布西耶最初为他自己的前卫杂志《L'Esprit Nouveau》所写的文章的汇编。本书是该历史性宣言的第13个法语版本的未删节英译本，勒-柯布西耶在其中阐述了他的技术和美学理论，对工业、经济、形式与功能的关系、"大规模生产精神 "等方面的看法。他是建筑界 "现代 "运动的主要预言家。