Voiture minimum : Le Corbusier and the automobile Le Corbusier who famously called a house a machine for living  was fascinated even obsessed by another kind of machine the automobile. His writings were strewn with references to autos ... In his white phase of the twenties and thirties he insisted that his buildings be photographed with a modern automobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936 entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition submitting plans for a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality  the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusiers energetic promotion of his design to several important automakers the Voiture Minimum was never mass produced. This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusiers adventure in automobile design. Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail linking it to Le Corbusiers architectural work to Modernist utopian urban visions and to the automobile design projects of other architects including Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright. The story is supported by many images and documents including architects favorite cars sketches and models of the Voiture Minimum and copies of Le Corbusiers correspondence with prospective manufacturers. Dust jacket