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Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:31951000147033W
The famous architect presents a wide range of ideas, including details on "an organism (the Radiant City) capable of housing the works of man in what is from now on a machine-age society."--Page [3].
Author : Lisa Nelles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : City planning
ISBN : 3656547181
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: -, Technical University of Darmstadt, language: English, abstract: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, born October, 6th 1887, is known as one of the most important architects of the last century. Otherwise, he is also seen extremely controversial in-between his artistic municipality. According to his point of view of architecture as a complex art of construction, he also dealt with architectural theory, city planning, sculpture and designing of furniture. Additionally, he was creative in drawing and painting. In "L'Esprit Nouveau" - an artistic magazine published since 1920 - he began to use the pseudonym Le Corbusier. Due to architecture, Le Corbusier's so-called "Five Points of a new Architecture" are very important. These principles point out a radical architectural change in order to react to the accelerating progress of mechanization and its influence on social change. As a result, Le Corbusier especially dealt with the construction of accommodations to implement his complex theory consistently. So-called "Doppelhaus in der Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart" - designed by Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier - seems to be an example. To give his theories and visions a suited area, Le Corbusier academically worked in architectural societies like "Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne" (CIAM). However, the architect was one of CIAM's co-founders. Until the mid 1920s, Le Corbusier was both, a social and an artistic supporter of capitalism. "Ville Contemporaire" (1922) with its forced authority, clear structure and geometry is an important evidence for his ideal. Since the beginning of the crisis of global economy in 1929, Le Corbusier has changed his point of view in a more radical one. The architect became an infernal supporter of so-called French syndicalism. Le Corbusier died on August, 27th 1965
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:319510001170651
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1614276056
2014 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This classic work is a collection of essays written by Le Corbusier advocating for and exploring the concept of modern architecture. The book has had a lasting effect on the architectural profession, serving as the manifesto for a generation of architects, a subject of hatred for others, and unquestionably a critical piece of architectural theory. The architectural historian Reyner Banham once claimed that its influence was unquestionably "beyond that of any other architectural work published in this [20th] century to date." That unparalleled influence has continued, unabated, into the 21st century. The polemical book contains seven essays. Each essay dismisses the contemporary trends of eclecticism and art deco, replacing them with architecture that was meant to be more than a stylistic experiment; rather, an architecture that would fundamentally change how humans interacted with buildings. This new mode of living derived from a new spirit defining the industrial age, demanding a rebirth of architecture based on function and a new aesthetic based on pure form.
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486319483
In this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thrilled a world already deep in the throes of the modern age. Today it is revered as a work that, quite literally, helped to shape our world. Le Corbusier articulates concepts and ideas he would put to work in his city planning schemes for Algiers, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Geneva, Stockholm, and Antwerp, as well as schemes for a variety of structures from a museum in Tokyo to the United Nations buildings. The influence it exerted on a new generation of architects is now legendary. The City of To-morrow and Its Planning characterizes European cities as a chaos of poor design, inadequate housing, and inefficient transportation that grew out of the unplanned jumble of medieval cities. Developing his thesis that a great modern city can only function on a basis of strict order, Le Corbusier presents two imposing schemes for urban reconstruction — the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris, and his more developed plans for the "City of Three Million Inhabitants," which envisioned, among other things, 60-story skyscrapers, set well apart, to house commercial activities, and residential housing grouped in great blocks of "villas." For those who live in cities as well as anyone interested in their planning, here is a probing survey of the problems of modern urban life and a master architect's stimulating vision of how they might be solved, enlivened by the innovative spirit and passionate creativity that distinguished all of Le Corbusier's work.
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Architectual Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 075064138X
This volume brings together three titles by Le Corbusier: Towards a new Architecture, The City of Tomorrow and The Decorative Art of Today.
Author : David Jenkins
Publisher : Phaidon Incorporated Limited
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714827703
The Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles is a key building of the twentieth century, and a seminal work in Le Corbusier's oeuvre. A precursor of buildings in Nantes, Berlin, Briey-en-Foret and Firminy, it established, in built form, Le Corbusier's ideas of public housing that had existed only on paper for more than twenty-five years. David Jenkins argues that the Marseilles Unite stands out as a powerful and convincing testament of Le Corbusier's fundamental humanism and his faith in the principles of the Ville Radieuse and the Brutalist medium of rough cast concrete which in other, less able hands, have since been called into question.
Author : Tom Weidlinger
Publisher : SparkPress
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781943006977
The Restless Hungarian is the saga of an extraordinary life set against the history of the rise of modernism, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Cold War. A Hungarian Jew whose inquiring spirit helped him to escape the Holocaust, Paul Weidlinger became one of the most creative structural engineers of the twentieth century. As a young architect, he broke ranks with the great modernists with his radical idea of the “Joy of Space.” As an engineer, he created the strength behind the beauty in mid-century modern skyscrapers, churches, museums, and he gave concrete form to the eccentric monumental sculptures of Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, and Jean Dubuffet. In his private life, he was a divided man, living behind a wall of denial as he lost his family to war, mental illness, and suicide. In telling his father’s story, the author sifts meaning from the inspiring and contradictory narratives of a life: a motherless child and a captain of industry, a clandestine communist who designed silos for the world’s deadliest weapons during the Cold War, a Jewish refugee who denied he was a Jew, a husband who was terrified of his wife’s madness, and a man whose personal saints were artists.
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : New York : G. Braziller
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015020388271
The writing of Le Corbusier, one of the master builders of the twentieth century, is made available in this careful selection of his texts. His drawings are also reproduced and are supplemented by plans and photographs of buildings he either designed himself or cited in his work. - from Google Books.
Author : Lisa Nelles
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783656546795
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: -, Technical University of Darmstadt, language: English, abstract: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, born October, 6th 1887, is known as one of the most important architects of the last century. Otherwise, he is also seen extremely controversial in-between his artistic municipality. According to his point of view of architecture as a complex art of construction, he also dealt with architectural theory, city planning, sculpture and designing of furniture. Additionally, he was creative in drawing and painting. In “L’Esprit Nouveau” – an artistic magazine published since 1920 – he began to use the pseudonym Le Corbusier. Due to architecture, Le Corbusier’s so-called “Five Points of a new Architecture” are very important. These principles point out a radical architectural change in order to react to the accelerating progress of mechanization and its influence on social change. As a result, Le Corbusier especially dealt with the construction of accommodations to implement his complex theory consistently. So-called “Doppelhaus in der Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart” – designed by Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier – seems to be an example. To give his theories and visions a suited area, Le Corbusier academically worked in architectural societies like “Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne” (CIAM). However, the architect was one of CIAM’s co-founders. Until the mid 1920s, Le Corbusier was both, a social and an artistic supporter of capitalism. “Ville Contemporaire” (1922) with its forced authority, clear structure and geometry is an important evidence for his ideal. Since the beginning of the crisis of global economy in 1929, Le Corbusier has changed his point of view in a more radical one. The architect became an infernal supporter of so-called French syndicalism. Le Corbusier died on August, 27th 1965.
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892368993
Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Architects
ISBN : UCSD:31822014295893
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Facsimiles-Garl
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015016994439
Vol. 15.
Author : Le Corbusier,Arts Council of Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Ben Green
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262039673
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity. Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. He proposes instead that cities strive to be “smart enough”: to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change—but not to value technology as an end in itself. In a technology-centric smart city, self-driving cars have the run of downtown and force out pedestrians, civic engagement is limited to requesting services through an app, police use algorithms to justify and perpetuate racist practices, and governments and private companies surveil public space to control behavior. Green describes smart city efforts gone wrong but also smart enough alternatives, attainable with the help of technology but not reducible to technology: a livable city, a democratic city, a just city, a responsible city, and an innovative city. By recognizing the complexity of urban life rather than merely seeing the city as something to optimize, these Smart Enough Cities successfully incorporate technology into a holistic vision of justice and equity.
