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Tony
Garnier
Une
Cité industrielle. Etude pour la construction des villes
[An Industrial City. A Study for the
Construction of Cities]
2nd
ed. Paris: C. Massin, 1939
NYPL,
General Research Division
When
Tony Garnier submitted a series of drawings to the Ecole des
Beaux Arts in Paris in 1901 and 1904 (he was then living at
the Villa Medici in Rome), he broke with tradition. In the
years that followed, he elaborated on this project, which
formed the basis of this book, Une Cité industrielle
[An Industrial City], first published in 1919. One can see
within it an architectural transcription of Emile Zola’s
novel Travail (1901). In his city, Garnier undertakes
to shelter a radically new society where the land is common
property. Despite this, the city’s formal structure,
as the book’s title suggests, is organized on a functional
plan imposed by the industrial world. The principle of dividing
a city into sectors and eliminating streets would appear soon
thereafter, in the drawings of Le Corbusier.
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