"The flight of a plane provides a spectacle with a lesson—a philosophy. No longer a delight of the senses.
When the eye is five feet or so above the ground, flowers and trees have dimension: a measure relative to human activity, proportion.
In the air, from above ? It is a wilderness, indifferent to our thousand year old ideas, a fatality of cosmic elements and events.
The huts of the Arab shepherds, clinging to the awesome heights of the Atlas, terribly isolated in a strange game, are in their starkness a revelation of natural violence.
The elements are a frightening incubus.
From the plane : there is no pleasure . . . but a long, concentrated, mournful meditation."
Text and scans from Le Corbusier Aircraft, The Studio, 1935.
Photography by Maxime Guyon AIRCRAFT The New Anatomy
Lars Müller Publishers
126 pages, 70 illustrations
2020, 978-3-03778-634-5
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