Le Corbusier: The Built Work

Le Corbusier: The Built Work
Author: Richard Pare
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1580934714

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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.

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Author: Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher: Taschen
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2004
Genre: Architects
ISBN: 9783822835357

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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.

Toward an Architecture

Toward an Architecture
Author: Le Corbusier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780892368990

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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.

Le Corbusier Le Grand

Le Corbusier Le Grand
Author: Editors of Phaidon
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-07-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780714846682

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

Le Corbusier and the Occult

Le Corbusier and the Occult
Author: Jan Birksted
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2009
Genre: Compagnonnages
ISBN: 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.

Modern Man

Modern Man
Author: Anthony Flint
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2014
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 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.

Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage

Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage
Author: Adolf Max Vogt
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262720335

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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.

The Le Corbusier Guide

The Le Corbusier Guide
Author: Deborah Gans
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1483135772

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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.

Le Corbusier and the Concept of Self

Le Corbusier and the Concept of Self
Author: Simon Richards
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 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.

Journey to the East

Journey to the East
Author: Le Corbusier
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1987
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Shares the influential architect's account of a 1911 trip through central and eastern Europe and includes sketches he made along the way.