Le Corbusier's Formative Years
Le Corbusier's Formative Years

Author: H. Allen Brooks

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999-05

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780226075822

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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

Le Corbusier, the Creative Search
Le Corbusier, the Creative Search

Author: Geoffrey Howard Baker

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780419177302

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A unique analysis and history of Le Corbusier--one of the key architects of the 20th century--his early education, his travels in Europe and the East, his buildings and his paintings. Professor Baker brings together the best of Le Corbusier's early paintings and sketches and explains their importance to his formative development. 400 illustrations, 50 in color.

Vernacular Modernism
Vernacular Modernism

Author: Maiken Umbach

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780804753432

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Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.

Le Corbusier in Perspective
Le Corbusier in Perspective

Author: Peter Serenyi

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Introduction / Peter Serenyi.Pt. 1. The formative years: 1887-1918. Origins (1944) / Maximilien Gauthier ; Origins, youth, travels (1968) / Stanislaus von Moos ; The beginnings of Le Corbusier?s education, 1902-07 (1971) / Paul Turner.Pt. 2. The mechanical analogy. Le Corbusier?s The engineer's aesthetic: mass-production houses (1922) / Marcello Piacentini ; Architecture in France: Le Corbusier-Saugnier (1922) / Paul Westheim ; The new house (1926) / Sigfried Giedion ; Progressive building in Paris: 1918-1928 (1960) / Reyner Banham.Pt. 3. History and modernity. The Mundaneum (1929) / Karel Teige ; Le Corbusier (1937) / Walter Curt Behrendt ; The mathematics of the ideal villa: Palladio and Le Corbusier compared (1947) / Colin Rowe ; Conclusion: Functionalism and technology (1960) / Reyner Banham.Pt. 4. The metamorphosis of form. Garches to Jaoul: Le Corbusier as domestic architect in 1927 and 1953 (1955) / James Stirling ; Ronchamp: Le Corbusier?s chapel and the crisis of rationalism (1956) / James Stirling ; Le Corbusier?s changing attitude toward form (1965) / Peter Serenyi ; Formal and functional interactions: a study of two late projects by Le Corbusier (1966) / Alan Colquhoun.Pt. 5. The modulor. Modulor (1954) / Peter Collins ; Le Corbusier?s modulor (1963) / Rudolf Wittkower.Pt. 6. The sociological context. Le Corbusier: the architecture of tomorrow? (1926) / Steen Eiler Rasmussen ; Lived-in architecture (1969) / Philippe Boudon ; Le Corbusier at Pessac (1972) / Brian Brace Taylor ; Le Corbusier, Fourier, and the Monastery of Ema (1967) / Peter Serenyi.Pt. 7. The city. A plan for a contemporary city (1922) / Waldemar George ; Le Corbusier and the ?pack-donkey's way (1929) / Cornelius Gurlitt ; From the City for 3 million inhabitants to the Plan Voisin (1968) / Stanislaus von Moos ; The city of dialectic (1969) / Kenneth Frampton ; Chandigarh (1969) / Norma Evenson.Biographical data.

Le Corbusier (Second) (World of Art)
Le Corbusier (Second) (World of Art)

Author: Kenneth Frampton

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-07-16

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0500777748

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A revised and updated edition of a bestselling introduction to Le Corbusier, one of the leading architects of the twentieth century. Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the twentieth century. The richness and variety of his work combined with his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had an immense impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes—his perennial drive toward new types of dwelling, such as the early white villas to the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and architecture historian Kenneth Frampton reexamines all facets of the architect’s artistic and philosophical worldview in light of recent thinking and presents us with a Le Corbusier whose work is still relevant for the twenty-first century. This second edition of Le Corbusier features a new introduction and color illustrations.

Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier

Author: Kenneth Frampton

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2024-05-16

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 050077773X

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Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes his perennial drive towards new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unité dHabitation at Marseilles; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and architecture historian Kenneth Frampton re-examines all the facets of his artistic and philosophical world-view in light of recent thinking, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the 21st century. This revised edition features a new introduction; some illustrations have now been replaced with colour.