Le Corbusier and the Occult

Le Corbusier and the Occult

Author: Jan Birksted

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0262026481

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"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.


Le Corbusier and the Occult

Le Corbusier and the Occult

Author: J K Birksted

Publisher:

Published: 2009-08-17

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 9781282240667

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Revealing the secret sources of Le Corbusier's architecture--concealed by the architect and undiscovered by scholars until now.


William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult

William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult

Author: Amandeep Kaur Mann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1000544702

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This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (1857–1931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in particular. Using detailed analysis of Lethaby’s drawings and architecture, the research uncovers Lethaby’s familiarity with occult concepts and ideology during the spiritual revolution of the nineteenth century. Throughout this time, countless individuals, particularly members of the avant-garde, rejected more traditional religious pathways and sought answers through experimental and mystical alternatives. William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult reveals how the architect was profoundly influenced by the Zeitgeist, which was saturated with references to spiritualism, mysticism and the occult, and explores the impact of occultism on his contemporaries and the wider Arts and Crafts Movement. This book is written for upper-level students, researchers and academics interested in architectural history, William Lethaby and nineteenth century culture and society.


Le Corbusier, the Dishonest Architect

Le Corbusier, the Dishonest Architect

Author: Malcolm Millais

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 152750736X

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This is not a book for architects, but for all those that have suffered, consciously and unconsciously, from modern architecture and have wondered how it came about. This was largely due to one man, an architect called Le Corbusier. For some he was a genius, but the truth is he was a sham, a fake, a charlatan whose only gift was for self-publicity. He was the most influential architect of the second half of the twentieth century; his influence overwhelmed the architectural profession on a global scale, who swallowed his publicity whole, and still hold him in awe. For the rest of the world, the mere mortals, his influence was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes, imposing a dreariness hitherto unimagined. As usual, it was the poor who suffered most as they were herded into tower-blocks. These were often grouped into estates that ringed many towns and cities, which then degenerated into high-rise slums with all the well-known attendant social problems. This book exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects. These were due to his profound dishonesty, both as a person and as an architect. His legacy was an architectural profession that believed, and still believe, they were designing buildings based on logic, functionality and honesty whereas they were doing the opposite.


Le Corbusier in Detail

Le Corbusier in Detail

Author: Flora Samuel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0750663545

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A highly original study of one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.


Echo's Chambers

Echo's Chambers

Author: Joseph L. Clarke

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0822988038

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A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects have systematically endeavored to represent and control the propagation of sound in large interior spaces. Their work has been informed by the science of sound but has also been entangled with debates on style, visualization techniques, performance practices, and the expansion of the listening public. Echo’s Chambers explores how architectural experimentation from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries laid the groundwork for concepts of acoustic space that are widely embraced in contemporary culture. It focuses on the role of echo and reverberation in the architecture of Pierre Patte, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Carl Ferdinand Langhans, and Le Corbusier, as well as the influential acoustic ideas of Athanasius Kircher, Richard Wagner, and Marshall McLuhan. Drawing on interdisciplinary theories of media and auditory culture, Joseph L. Clarke reveals how architecture has impacted the ways we continue to listen to, talk about, and creatively manipulate sound in the physical environment.


Modern Man

Modern Man

Author: Anthony Flint

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0544262220

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Journalist Flint recounts the life and times of the legendary architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier, and provides illuminating details of his most iconic projects.


Architectonics of Humanism

Architectonics of Humanism

Author: Lionel March

Publisher:

Published: 1998-12-08

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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Reinterpreting the architectural principles of the Renaissance period. This book presents a fresh viewpoint on the use of symmetry and proportion in Alberti and Palladio with the help of new illustrations and examples. Covering the evolution of the Renaissance tradition into the twentieth century, this book offers a new evaluation which veers from Le Corbusier and the French school and moves toward the continuation and transformation in the Viennese and Chicago practices exemplified by Frank Lloyd Wright and the American school. Lionel March (Los Angeles, CA) is a practicing architect and an avid follower of the Modernist tradition in architecture. He also teaches at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA.


Le Corbusier and the Concept of Self

Le Corbusier and the Concept of Self

Author: Simon Richards

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780300095654

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Filosofische analyse van het zelfconcept van de Zwitsers-Franse architect (1887-1965), herwaardering van zijn motieven als stadsplanoloog en nieuwe inzichten met betrekking tot zijn intellectuele relaties met andere leden van de avantgarde van de twintigste eeuw.