LE CORBUSIER. PARÍS, 1915. CONSTRUIR DIBUJOS, CONSTRUIR CIUDADES.

After writing the draft of La Construction des villes in 1910 -whose drawings in Germany were discussed in the previous issue of this journal- this project was put on hold until 1915, when he moved to Paris for seven weeks. At the Bibliothéque Nationale he prepared a series of files with texts and sketches and, above all, devoted himself to copying new drawings. Now the workmanship is fast, and rather than faithfully reproducing, he interprets what he sees through a new prism: classicism. There are other references: Blondel and Laugier as sources of authority, but also books and plates by Piranesi, Perelle, Riat, Patte, oriental architecture, historical maps of Paris and prints and engravings from the Cabinet des Estampes. That book was definitively abandoned, but a new conception of the city began to take shape in those days and was reflected in his urban proposals and in Urbanisme, where he published some of these drawings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]