With the right angle, man creates his own order

The Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier is an infamous proposal entered the history books: demolish large parts of Paris and replace it with a monotonous collection of cross-shaped residential towers in a rectangular grid. By early September, the Museum of Architecture at the TU Munich shows in the Pinakothek der Moderne Le Corbusier's ideas of using a "poem about the right angle" as part of an exhibition about the political and social commitment in architecture.
Categoricallyright angle of the characterthe spirit of the heart.I've seen myself in this characterand I found itI foundfoundHorizontal gaze straight ahead ...
Wrote in 1887 in Switzerland as CharlesÉdouard Jeanneret-Gris-born architect and artist who called himself since the early 1920s in Paris, Le Corbusier, 1955 in a peripheral, with lithographs to 155 large format pages printed in small editions poem. It is first shown in Germany now complete - in the words of museum director Prof. Wilfried Nerdinger "a single complex structure and thoughts of" Le Corbusier with "an infinite number of motifs, which are also present in its architecture."
Although Le Corbusier, the human body the measure of all things and this was explained in the illustrations to his poem, he wrote it about his architecture:
Mathematics!So it was, the happymaybe even find a wonderfulNumber in numbers hasthis human-produced tool.
The buildings of the museum's architecture, according to the "greatest architects of the 20th Century, "according to Le Corbusier's own words were to" poetry "was founded and made possible by his free artistic work. According to his ideas, the exhibition presents his color lithographs in the form of a religious-style multi-limbed cross, that Le Corbusier called the iconostasis. Each series is devoted to a topic: dedicated issue: the environment on the mental and physical elements to the right angle, with the man creates his own conviction to Le Corbusier's fine.
Simultaneously with this presentation, the Museum of Architecture Examples of political and so-cial commitment shows in the architecture of the early 19th Century to the present. It recalls, for example, to Bernhard Christoph Faust, in his 1824 Sun City planned a hundred years before the first row houses of the early 20th Century all the buildings to the south should have been focused on lofty designs of the early 20th Century, which, under an "International World Centre" (Hendrik Christian Andersen 1912) or a "pantheon of humanity" (Hendrik Petrus Berlage, 1915) did not want to let go off, and moves from there to the bow, for example, to the Garden City Hellerau and to within one decade (1925-1934) created 60 000 social housing in Vienna. 'L' architecture engagée - manifestos for change in society "is also still to 2 September to see in the Pinakothek der Moderne.