Le Corbusier

Author : Richard Pare,Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580934718

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Le Corbusier: The Built Work by Richard Pare,Jean-Louis Cohen Pdf

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 : Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3822835358

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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 by Jean-Louis Cohen Pdf

Le Corbusier came of age at the time when cars and planes were becoming a common means of transportation, thus he was one of the first professional architects to ply his trade on several continents at once. This book brings together his finest work.

Author : Marc Hagan-Guirey
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1786275627

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Le Corbusier Paper Models by Marc Hagan-Guirey Pdf

Le Corbusier is a Modernist icon whose buildings and theories have influenced structures the world over. Now you can create 10 of his most important works using the art of kirigami (cutting and folding). Each project features step-by-step instructions, cutting tips, and a template that you can remove from the book. Photos of each finished model show the final design. All you need is a craft knife, a cutting mat, and a ruler. When you are done, simply display your model and admire your handiwork. Le Corbusier Paper Models is a must for Corb fans and architectural model enthusiasts.

Author : Adolf Max Vogt,Le Corbusier
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262720337

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Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage by Adolf Max Vogt,Le Corbusier Pdf

Vogt's investigation of LC's early life and education not only reveals important, previously unacknowledged influences on specific projects such as the League of Nations headquarters and the Villa Savoye, but also suggests why LC throughout his career preferred to lift buildings above the ground, to give them the appearance of "floating." This tendency had decisive consequences for buildings associated with the modern movement and continues to influence architecture today.

Author : William J. R. Curtis
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architects
ISBN : UOM:39015020384668

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Le Corbusier by William J. R. Curtis Pdf

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892368993

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Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier Pdf

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 : Editors of Phaidon
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714846686

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Le Corbusier Le Grand by Editors of Phaidon Pdf

The 70 page booklet accompanying Le Corbusier : Le Grand contains a French/English glossary of architectural terms and translations of the foreign language documents.

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486315645

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Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier Pdf

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 : Jan Birksted
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Compagnonnages
ISBN : 9780262026482

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Le Corbusier and the Occult by Jan Birksted Pdf

"Le Corbusier grew up in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a city described by Karl Marx as "one unified watchmaking industry." Among the unifying social structures of La Chaux-de-Fonds was the Loge L'Amitié, the Masonic lodge with its francophone moral, social, and philosophical ideas, including the symbolic iconography of the right angle (rectitude) and the compass (exactitude). Le Corbusier would later describe these as "my guide, my choice" and as his "time-honored ideas, ingrained and deep-rooted in the intellect, like entries from a catechism." Through exhaustive research that challenges long-held beliefs, J.K. Birksted's Le Corbusier and the Occult traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives."--Publisher.

Author : Colin Bisset
Publisher : Pan
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743342053

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Not Always to Plan by Colin Bisset Pdf

Death and marriage, money and love: this family is about to find out what happens when their lives collide with the unexpected. The Dorman family lives a humdrum existence in a surfing suburb of Sydney until they are rocked by upheaval. Change is inevitable, but is it welcome? All that is certain is that each member of the family will have to confront new truths about themselves, some less comfortable than others. Set against a backdrop of Sydney's stunning beaches, the architecture of Europe and the enchanting beauty of southern India, this warmly humorous book tackles what happens when life doesn't go exactly to plan.

Author : Hélène Bauchet-Cauquil,Françoise-Claire Prodhon,Patrick Seguin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 2909187071

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Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret by Hélène Bauchet-Cauquil,Françoise-Claire Prodhon,Patrick Seguin Pdf

Illustrated with photographs dating from the time period to the present, this book documents the architectural project and the production of the furniture, offering a definitive summary of this epic modernist enterprise. A further chapter is dedicated to the work of Lucien Hervé, the famous architectural photographer who depicted the city extensively. The architect, urban planner, painter, writer, designer and theorist Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was born in Switzerland in 1887. In 1922 Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret opened an architectural studio in Paris, inaugurating a partnership that would last until 1940. They began experimenting with furniture design after inviting the architect Charlotte Perriand to join the studio in 1928. After World War II, they sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.

Author : Jacob Brillhart
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393733563

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Voyage Le Corbusier by Jacob Brillhart Pdf

Following the master architect’s drawing campaign as a young man. Voyage Le Corbusier collects for the first time a compendium of sketchbook drawings and watercolors of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret—a young student who would go onto become the singularly influential modernist architect Le Corbusier. Between 1907 and 1911, Jeanneret traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, carrying an array of drawing supplies and documenting all that he saw: classical ruins, details of interiors, vibrant landscapes, and the people and objects that populated them. Jacob Brillhart excavates the "visual thinking" of the twentieth century's pioneer architect, reproducing a selection of 175 drawings from these early sketchbooks. For Brillhart, the images themselves are the best argument for the importance of seeing and "drawing in order to see" —not only because they show the roots of Le Corbusier's later practice but also for their relevance to the study of design today, which tends to jettison drawing instruction in favor of computer-based modeling software. Brillhart traces Jeanneret's steps, revisiting architectural history while providing a physical and intellectual road map for students, travelers, and lovers of art and architecture. Featuring dozens of never-before-published drawings and others reproduced here for the first time in full color or available only in disparate sources, Voyage Le Corbusier is at once a critical introduction to Jeanneret's budding practice and a richly detailed visual travelogue. Brillhart ably guides us through Jeanneret's itinerary and, at the same time, the development of his compositional abilities, the sharpening of his eye, and the widening of his incomparable artistic sensibility.

Author : Philippe Potié
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035603149

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Le Corbusier. Le Couvent Sainte Marie de La Tourette / The Monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette by Philippe Potié Pdf

in1952 Le Corbusier was commissioned "to dwell in the silence of men of prayer and study and to construct a church for them". The result was his impressive Convent of La Tourette, marking a significant step in modern religious architecture. Beginning with the rectangular form common to the Cirstercian monastic tradition, he created a building whose stark form contrasts beautifully with the organic elements of the interior court and the grasslands surrounding it. The church itself is a model of simplicity, the cement has been left rough and the well located sources of light evoke a feeling of silence and reflection. The order s precept of prayer, study and reflection is aptly mirrored in the architecture. Like the other Le Corbusier Guides published by Birkhäuser, this volume provides a wealth of plans, details, photographs and information on this building which today is also a conference centre.

Author : Stanislaus von Moos
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789064506420

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Le Corbusier by Stanislaus von Moos Pdf

Originally published in Germany in 1968, this first comprehensive and critical survey of Le Corbusier's life and work soon became the standard text on the architect and polymath. French, Spanish, English, Japanese and Korean editions followed, but the book has now been out of print for almost two decades. In the meantime, Le Corbusier's archives in Paris have become available for research, resulting in an avalanche of scholarship. Von Moos' critical take and the basic criteria by which the subject is organized and historicized remain surprisingly pertinent in the context of this recent jungle of Corbusier studies. This new, completely revised edition is based on the 1979 version published in English by the MIT Press but offers a substantially updated body of illustrations. Each of the seven chapters is supplemented by a critical survey of recent scholarship on the respective issues. An updated edition of this acclaimed book, an essential read for students of architecture and architectural history.

Author : Deborah Gans
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781483135779

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The Le Corbusier Guide by Deborah Gans Pdf

The Le Corbusier Guide presents the architecture of Le Corbusier. The focus is on Paris given that it is his adopted city and the place where he came of age. Within its environs is a representative sample of his built work. It contains most of his purist houses, and an early foray away from the crisp surfaces of Purism. This itinerary follows the outlines of Le Corbusier's life's work. Beginning at his birthplace in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the route continues to Paris, to the perimeter of France, and finally to the international scene architects, architecture, Paris. Also presented are Le Corbusier's work in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, United States, Argentina, Brazil, Tunisia, Iraq, Japan, USSR, and India. The itinerary includes not only the buildings but also the process of getting from one to the next. On the ""open road"" it is a pleasure to remember Le Corbusier's own joy of self-propulsion in the automobile, efficiency, and speed in the train; and the thrill of flight as he experienced it with the poet of flight, Antoine de Saint Exupery. All these mimetic pleasures are ancillary to the experience of the buildings in situ in their complex relationship to local landscape, national spirit, and international vision.