The early 20th century saw the birth of Modernist architecture. It brought with it a central architectural movement that in turn birthed off-shoots of its own. A figure often seen as the defining face of this movement is Le Corbusier, whose 1923 treatise Toward an Architecture was influential to his Modernist contemporaries ? a manifesto including the phrase ?a house is a machine for living in? where good architecture would have to be intrinsically linked to function and the demands of industry.

De La Warr Pavilion. Image © David Dennis via Shutterstock
The early 20th century saw the birth of Modernist architecture. It brought with it a central architectural movement that in turn birthed off-shoots of its own. A figure often seen as the defining face of this movement is Le Corbusier, whose 1923 treatise Toward an Architecture was influential to his Modernist contemporaries ? a manifesto including the phrase ?a house is a machine for living in? where good architecture would have to be intrinsically linked to function and the demands of industry.
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