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"La maison est une machine à habiter" (English: "The house is a machine for living in") stated Le Corbusier in Vers une architecture in 1923.

These "Machines for living" illustrated for various critics, including Tom Wolfe, both the essential unlivability of Bauhaus-inspired box architecture, and the hubris of central planning.

The Pruitt-Igoe housing project represented the end of this Corbusier esthetic and the start of postmodern architecture.




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