The rhetoric of modernism : Le Corbusier as a lecturer
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The rhetoric of modernism : Le Corbusier as a lecturer
Birkhäuser, c2009
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Le Corbusier conférencier
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Originally published: Paris : Moniteur, c2007
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Beginning in the "heroic" period of the 1920s, Le Corbusier presented his work to the world in his lectures: in Paris and Rome, Geneva and Zurich, Barcelona and Brussels, Prague and Moscow, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, as well as at Columbia University in New York.
In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the arguments and strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing highlights and fuses them into an architectural conception that every advanced architectural position and practice must still come to terms with today.
After presenting the lectures in detail in a series of thematic chapters, the final third of the book reproduces five pivotal lectures from the 1920s and 1950s.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Corbusian Logic
Conferences on Architecture: Origins and Evolution
Conferences on Urbanism: Origins and Evolution
The Buenos Aires Conferences
5 Conferences:
Strasbourg, 1923
Lausanne, 1924
Paris, 1924
Brussels, 1926
Brussels, 1958
Indeces
Bibliography
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