Le Corbusier in Detail
Author: Flora Samuel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0750663545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly original study of one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.
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Le Corbusier in Detail
Author: Flora Samuel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-08-31
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1136388907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings. It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier's details were expressive of his overall philosophical intentions. It is not a construction book in the usual sense- rather it focusses on the meaning of detail, on the ways in which detail informs the overall architectural narrative of a building. Well illustrated and containing several specially prepared scaled drawings it acts as timely reminder to both students and architects of the possibilities inherent in the most small scale tectonic gestures.
Toward an Architecture
Author: Le Corbusier
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780892368990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished 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.
Le Corbusier
Author: Flora Samuel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2004-04-02
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0470847476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Modern Man
Author: Anthony Flint
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0544262220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJournalist 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.
Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage
Author: Adolf Max Vogt
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780262720335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVogt'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.
Le Corbusier Le Grand: Introductory essay
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Published: 2008
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Le Corbusier Guide
Author: Deborah Gans
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2014-05-16
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1483135772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Le Corbusier and the Concept of Self
Author: Simon Richards
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780300095654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilosofische 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.
Nature and Space
Author: Sarah Menin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780415281256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 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.
