"ARCHITECTURE IS THE WORLD CONJURED FROM THE QUARRY OF MYTH." —JEF7REY HILDNER, DISTURBANCE

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In honor of the centennial of a book―

TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE
1923
By Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris | aka Le Corbusier
Architect Painter Writer

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THE GENIUS OF LE CORBUSIER, the Swiss-French master, inspired me 50 years ago as a student at Princeton University to likewise become an architect, a painter, and a writer.

And change my name―more than once!

Through all my creative endeavors, including 11 books, I passionately explore the architecture of art and life.

"Architecture is a story told through a building," I proclaimed in my book Visual E9ects. In Disturbance, a follow-up to my book Toward An Architecture AI | 2023, I showcase more visions of Daedalus 9—my dream house—inspired by the tragic but heroic story of the mythical ancient Greek architect, inventor of the Labyrinth and Wings.

I foresee the final design of Daedalus 9 emerging from an artistic fusion of Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence, which I call ZIntelligence.

The result? A ZI House.

And I envision someday supervising robots and androids as they build Daedalus 9: The Labyrintheum—the world conjured from the quarry of myth.

But I also dream of creating a masterwork of story architecture through the sorcery of screenwriting.

ZERO recounts the fantastic tale of architect Zac Sarsen, who sees the winter solstice sunrise at Stonehenge then wakes up the next day and finds an extra zero at the end of his bank account.

Above all, I seek to bedazzle through the magic of art, simultaneously aesthetic and symbolic, resonating with a paranormal blend of originality and archetypal power. I aspire to evoke emotion, herald brave creativity, and reveal a universe we can't see if we take the Blue Pill.

Architecture is the Red Pill.

I hope this book inspires a metamorphic Disturbance―like Le Corbusier's book Toward an Architecture, the epic prequel to my modest tribute.

(Edition 2024)