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Le Corbusier, Book Dummy for βUne Petite Maisonβ, (1954)
In 1954, Le Corbusier published the book, βUne Petite Maisonβ. In it, he describes the house that he built for his aging parents on the shores of Lake Geneva. It is above all about the act of dwelling, an essay on the poetics of space. As Gaston Bachelard explains in his book of the same name, βThe act of dwelling arises infallibly as soon as one has the impression of being sheltered.β Le Corbusierβs book is a series of lessons on the poetics of shelter. They begin with the title and dust jacket. βUne Petite Maisonβ means not simply a quantitatively small house but especially a quantitatively small house. We sleep more soundlyβ, observes Bachelard in a βlittle houseβ than in a large one. The βlittle houseβ calls for reveries of coziness associated with miniatures. This cozy seclusion is even suggested in the cover where Le Corbusier has drawn a broad black band around itβs surface, thereby placing it in itβs own sheltered nest.
