First, I read the book "towards a new architecture" by Le Corbusier. I got some thought about this book, and I want to share it to you.
Here is a link if you are interested, or I have this book, if you want to borrow.
Industrial revolution was already developed massively at Corbusier’s time. The invention of internal combustion engine, the vigorously development of railway, and the mass production show the whole world toward the industrialism, and the people’s value also change with it: the time concept get values and the clock get widespread; capital has streamed over the place where people need, and product more value. The efficiency becomes the measure. At that time, Corbusier present that “Architecture or Revolution”. The style at the past is showy and not substantial, and the low efficiency already impatient of capitalism. The new technologies crying need to represent their value on the new architecture form, and more and more living problems need to be solved. And Corbusier considers that the only way to solve the problems is that develop new architecture forms. In this book, he present “three reminders to architects: Mass, Surface, Plan”, and he brings a new thought of architecture: new sprit.
Corbusier first finds the new spirit which is bought by the industrialization, and he reprimands the most architects that they turn a blind eye to the new spirit of industry, industrial production and new times. The book especially cite industrial production examples of, steamer, airplane, and automobile, after the advantageous, he reminders the architects open their eyes to watch and research, also to learn from the engineer who product the manufactured goods. At this time, Corbusier has admiration with the variety things which is brought by the industrialization. “Our modern life….has created its own object: its costume, its fountain pen, its eversharp pencil, its typewriter, its telephone, it admirable office furniture, its plate-glass and its “innovation” trunks, the safety razor and the briar pipe…..", and those things are all made by machine, and some of them are machine in itself. Corbusier not only sees the advantageous function of machine and the product of machine, but also promotes the value of the machine to emotion, aesthetic, and ethics. Corbusier wrote that the felling of the machine is objective exist and also be proved by our daily life, and it is “respect, gratitude, and admired.” He thought that this new factor is already arousing a new spirit of the time. For instance, the villa savoye is also become a kinds of his pronouncement at that time.
（Villa Savoye）
We can see the enthusiasm of new architecture from many of his works. He first uses the principle of industrialization in the construction of private architecture. From his Dom-Ino House, he proposes a mass-produced housing scheme that reduced components to minimum things which are stairs and floors. It can use the same structural style to compose many kinds of façade by insert the wall. From his Citrohan House, Corbusier attempt to design a modest dwelling that would be as affordable as automobile then being manufactured.
Dom-Ino House Citrohan House
Corbusier intense negate conservative viewpoint of construction since the nineteenth century, and the architecture style of revivalism. He wrote in his book that describe the style is “a feather on a woman’s head; it is sometimes pretty, though not always, and never anything more.”He points out that “our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style.” Corbusier puts forward of “a house is a machine for living in”to advocate using the technical method to product the architecture, promote decrease the cost of construction, and reduce the constructional elements, and also emphasizes the “elementary shapes is the sane morality”, is the beauty.
Corbusier solve the architecture problem of his times, but how about our times? Corbusier thought the satisfied with function is only construction, but satisfied with spirit is architecture. In fact that after Corbusier, almost all buildings can satisfied function, and living problem slow down after the early capitalism. However, the needs of people’s spirit always affect a key factor of architecture. Because the modernism unilateral emphasizes the sense and science, and postmodernism is a kind of technique and style at most. After that, structuralism, deconstruction, minimalism, and other doctrines emerge in endlessly, and finally there is no specific style, instead, the diverse architecture styles exist on our time now.
The second designer I look at is Fran lloyd Wright. For him, I'm mpressed by his work--Fallingwater(Kaufmann Residence).
I visited the falling water at 2009 spring, and i was so surprised about it. I reaserched the falling water before I visit it, and I got a broadly understood about it background, designer, structure, historic achievement, and more. The house was built "in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains." The fallingwater is constructed on three levels primarily of reinforced concrete, native sandstone and glass, and the well known point is the soaring cantilevered balconies are anchored in solid rock. when I visit it, I like the house a lot, and the fallingwater flow under the house, and the house and fallingwater become same part. However, I was so surprised because the house itself, and all interior furnitures are so small, it seems built for children.
I really admire Frank Lloyd Wright, he has big influnce at his time and even now. Also he was influnced by Japaness architecture, and created his own style, he is very success architect, and a lot of architects are influnced by his theory of American Prairie style, International style.
The last one is Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe,
He was famous on his architecture, also he designed many furnitures.
Mies was equally famous with Frank Lloyed Wright, and Le Corbusier. For aarchitecture style, they are all different, having their own style, also obtain high attainments on their style, however, they all have similar architecture theory. when he was a president of Bauhaus School, Mies took the style of Bauhaus school and developed a style which having the balanced and compact style classicism. His theory of "Less Is More" reflect his design viewpoint, and art feature, also influnce the whole world.
I like his design style, whatever the architectures or furnitures, those are simple, and compact, the structure is clear, and the simple color of black and white, also he used lots of glass structure to make his architectured become so different at his time.
Farnsworth house 
chair
here is more links of Mies and his works
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