taken from: 'vers une architecture' (1923)original text:

'Une maison est une machine-á-habiter'about the quoted person:Swiss born architect, theorist and designer who worked and wrote with a unique vision, energy and clarity that made him one of the most influential figures shaping the international style during the early 1900s.

Born Charles Edouard Jeanneret, he rechristened himself Le Corbusier in Paris in 1920, around the time he started his journal L'Esprit Nouveau. An active member of the Parisian art scene and co-founder of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), he championed a minimalist modernism built around the idea of the home as a "machine for living."Le Corbusier originally trained as a watch engraver in his hometown of La Chaux de Fonds at the vocational arts college. He began a successful career as an engraver, in 1902 he was awarded a prize at the Turin Exhibition for a watch engraving, but he soon turned his attention to architecture.

In 1917 he moved to Paris where the contagious immediacy of the art scene inspired him to produce a number of paintings. Along with painter Amédée Ozenfant he wrote the manifesto, Après le Cubisme championing a new post-cubist purism. Throughout the 1920s Le Corbusier solidified his philosophies about design and began publishing books and journals. 'vers une architecture' is one of these books.