Le corbusier
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Le corbusier
（World of art）
Thames and Hudson, c2001
Available at 11 libraries
Note
"with 191 illustrations"
Includes Bibliography(p. 234-235) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 Unite 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 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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 The Formative Years 1887-1916 2 Towards a New Architecture 1917-1927 3 The City of Tomorrow 1910-1933 4 Decorative Art Today 1925-1937 5 A House, A Palace 1923-1929 6 World Architect: Czechoslovakia, Russia, Brazil, North Africa, North America, France and Switzerland 1928-1936 7 The Politics of the Unpolitical: Le Corbusier and Saint-Simonian Technocracy 1923-1947 8 From Intermediate Technology to Regional Urbanization 1929-1946 9 Towards a New Habitat 1922-1960 10 The Sacred and the Profane: Le Corbusier and Spiritual Form 1948-1965 11 Passage to India 1950-1965 12 Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit 13 Fin d'un Monde: The Last Works 1939-65 Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments for Illustrations, Index
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