I am reading a rather complex book about architecture (the current chapter deals with architect Le Corbusier) and find it difficult to understand some phrases. What the word "equip mean in this context (does it mean to ''create a material environment for the machine-age civilization?):
Throughout the first half of the 1930s this latent monumentalizing tendency in no way diminished Le Corbusier's interest in equipping the "machine-age" civilization. He continued to address himself to industrialists and called attention whenever possible to his capacity for designing the large-scale objects-types, regarded by him as being essential to the equipment of a new age. Such indeed were the four major buildings that he realized between 1932 and 1933: the Maison Clarte apartments, the Pavillon Suisse, the Salvation Army Building and his own Porte Molitor apartments.
Also, what the phrase "address himself to industrialists?" (does it mean he "got acquainted with industrialists or contacted them or simply made contacts with them?)
Fluent speakers of English, please could you help me with my English?
2016-10-18 2:40 pm
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2016-10-18 3:10 pm
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Corb was providing designs for the practical business of living as well as grand architectural gestures. To him, houses were 'machines for living in' - then a radical concept. Vers une architecture was as much about cars and grain silos as it was about buildings - so equip here means make a practical environment...His clients were industrialists such as the Genoese businessman Edmond Wanner for whom he designed the Maison Clarte apartments rather than the traditional aristocratic patrons. Addressing himself - means targeted them with a view to them taking up his ideas (and appointing him to be their architect).
2016-10-18 3:47 pm
Indeed you seem to be right. It seems that Le C felt he had a mission to provide a suitable "built environment" for the machine age.
2016-10-18 3:44 pm
"Equipping" here means "providing or contributing to the growth and/or prosperity of". The "machine-age" refers to an era (or period) of society. So, Le Corbusier's interest in contributing [ideas or innovations] to that era was not diminished.
"He continued to address himself to industrialists" means "he continued to make himself known to different industrialists by contacting them". So, to select one of your choices, I'd say "contact them" is the best choice because the context of the paragraph is about business and industrialists. His contacts were business-related, not necessarily personal.
"He continued to address himself to industrialists" means "he continued to make himself known to different industrialists by contacting them". So, to select one of your choices, I'd say "contact them" is the best choice because the context of the paragraph is about business and industrialists. His contacts were business-related, not necessarily personal.
2016-10-18 2:50 pm
designing in a way that would facilitate the "machine age" civilization to succeed
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