Le Corbusier's Vers une architecture

Le Corbusier's manifesto Vers une architecture, first published in Paris in 1923, was a distillation of articles that had appeared in his Purist periodical L'Esprit Nouveau.  

This book became a foundation source for the modernist movement, especially his description of a house as 'a machine for living.'  In it, Le Corbusier commended mass production, modern steamships, airplanes, automobiles as elements of a new world of equality and convenience for all. 

His signature use of cubic spaces supported by thin piers, prefabricated materials, and open plans became standard elements of modernist architecture throughout the world. 

In Vers un architecture, Le Corbusier sought to convince others that architecture must reflect its time, not to look to the past.