It's the sort of book you might have on your shelf for thirty years but never read it through. A book you look at sometimes when reflecting on what it might be to be a great writer. It becomes a kind of touchstone for you. You're

HERE IS a version of a famous aphorism that will be forever associated with Le Corbusier: the house is a machine in which to live. He spoke it in the nineteen twenties, a time of the socialist experiment, the great aftershock, the explosion of the avant-garde, and later he died,