The Le Corbusier Guide has been a favourite of architects since it was first published over 10 years ago. This edition has been completely updated and features photographs, plans, and precise descriptions of Le Corbusier's great architectural edifices. It includes a complete index and introduction, making it the perfect reference for the scholar, student, or tourist.
Like all the guides in this series, this book is indispensable both for a specialist audience and for tourists interested in architecture and modern art.
Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier dominated twentieth-century architecture much the way Picasso dominated painting. His outstanding achievements, his vision of a harmonious machine civilization, his paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, city planning,...
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: -, Technical University of Darmstadt, language: English, abstract: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, born October, 6th 1887, is known as one ...
It is more than 30 years since the death of Le Corbusier, "the architect of the century". And yet for all the recognition his work has received both during his...
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.
A guide to the convent Sainte Marie de la Tourette near Lyon: a masterpiece of modern ecclesiastical architecture.
Central to Le Corbusier's idea of community was the concept of the Radiant City which received its full expression in ... linking it to its environment and beyond.10 Radiant architecture would impose its influence upon the surroundings.
Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture
No other architect since Palladio has exercised such an immense influence as Le Corbusier. As with Einstein and Picasso, Le Corbusier made an impact that was felt within but also...
This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.