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Author : Dominique Lyon,Olivier Boissière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015050694994
This book offers a fresh and candid view of some of the masterpieces of modern architecture, as well as bringing some of Le Corbuiser's less famous works into a new light.
Author : Maurice Besset
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015037493296
Author : George H. Marcus,Le Corbusier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015056672291
His own metal furniture, designed in collaboration with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, was based on strict conceptions of utility and typology that nevertheless resulted in pieces that were among the most elegant and luxurious creations of modern design.".
Author : Richard Pare,Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580934718
The most thoroughgoing survey of nearly all of Le Corbusier's extant projects, beautifully photographed and authoritatively detailed. Le Corbusier is widely acknowledged as the most influential architect of the twentieth century. As extensively researched and documented as his works are, however, they have never been exhaustively surveyed in photographs until now. Photographer Richard Pare has crossed the globe for years to document the extant works of Le Corbusier--from his first villas in Switzerland to his mid-career works in his role as the first global architect in locations as far-flung as Argentina and Russia, and his late works, including his sole North American project, at Harvard University, and an extensive civic plan for Chandigarh, India. Le Corbusier: The Built Work provides numerous views of each project to bring a fuller understanding of the architect's command of space, sometimes surprising use of materials and color, and the almost ineffable qualities that only result from a commanding synthesis of all aspects of design. With an authoritative text by scholar and curator Jean-Louis Cohen, Le Corbusier: The Built Work is a groundbreaking opportunity to appreciate the master's work anew.
Author : Nicholas Fox Weber
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307270566
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings—a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture. In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism—vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru . . . Brassaï . . . Malraux (he championed Le Corbusier’s work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris) . . . Einstein . . . Matisse . . . the Steins . . . Picasso . . . Walter Gropius, and others. We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated goverments only for the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitler and Vichy rule would bring about “a marvelous transformation of society,” then renounced the doomed regime and went to work for Charles de Gaulle and his provisional government. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s fraught relationships with women (he remained celibate until the age of twenty-four and then often went to prostitutes); about his twenty-seven-year-long marriage to a woman who had no interest in architecture and forbade it being discussed at the dinner table; about his numerous love affairs during his marriage, including his shipboard romance with the twenty-three-year-old Josephine Baker, already a legend in Paris, whom he saw as a “pure and guileless soul.” She saw him as “irresistibly funny.” “What a shame you’re an architect!” she wrote. “You’d have made such a good partner!” A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived.
Author : Flora Samuel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470847473
This is a revealing book which, for the first time, investigates the central influence of feminism in the work of Le Corbusier; one of the most important and revered architects of all time. The text covers Le Corbusier’s upbringing and training and sets this in the context of the cultural atmosphere of his time, covering issues of gender and religion. It reveals aspects of his private life such as personal relationships, which have barely been explored before as no biography currently exists. Furthermore, the author reveals, for the first time in print, a previously undiscovered and unpublished Le Corbusier building, making this book an incredibly significant addition to existing literature on the great man. In short, the new evidence and theories contained in this volume amount to major revelations about this hugely revered and central architectural figure of the 20th Century.
Author : H. Allen Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226075826
In Le Corbusier's Formative Years we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of documents that show every facet of the formative years of this influential architect. "There is much in this fine volume for anyone interested not just in architecture, but in the roots of human creativity and in the origins of the most powerful artistic current of our century. . . . This book is a life's work of scholarship. It has been well spent."—Toronto Globe and Mail
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486315645
Pioneering manifesto by founder of "International School." Technical and aesthetic theories, views of industry, economics, relation of form to function, "mass-production split," and much more. Profusely illustrated.
Author : Le Corbusier,Arts Council of Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015020379825
A detailed biography and analysis of the work of Le Corbusier, one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.
Author : Le Corbusier,Joseph Hudnut
Publisher : New York : Macmillan Company
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015047890226
Author : Le Corbusier,Alexander von Vegesack,Stanislaus von Moos,Arthur Rüegg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015073934666
Le Corbusier is regarded as the most influential architect of the twentieth century. This publication presents an overview of the Le Corbusier;s work not only as an architect but as a designer of comprehensive ideas offeringinsight into his firniture, interior design and art as a catalyst for the creative developments of his time.
Author : Adolf Loos,Le Corbusier,Johan van de Beek
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789064506659
This revised and updated edition looks anew at the respective merits of two giants of modern architecture. As well as featuring writings by the architects themselves, the book illustrates the evolution of the work of Loos and Le Corbusier, with detailed reference to their domestic projects, ranging from the Strasser House (1919) to the Last House (1932), and from Maison Domino (1915) to Villa Savoye (1932).
Author : Deborah Gans,Le Corbusier
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568985398
A picture may be worth a thousand words but there is no real substitute for personal experience and anyone who has visited Le Corbusier knows just how true this is. This architectural guide tells you everything you need to know to get to his buildings including maps, directions, and visitor information.
Author : Sarah Menin,Flora Samuel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415281245
By assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influences of two of the greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, this study offers an understanding about the diversity at the heart of modernism.
Author : Nicholas Fox Weber
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 1043 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9780375410437
Weber delves into the life of one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the 20th century. Le Corbusier, designer of the United Nations headquarters, was a leader of the controversial modernist movement that sought to create a better society through innovative urban planning.
