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

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

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.

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

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.

Toward an Architecture

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

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 and the Occult

Le Corbusier and the Occult
Author: Jan Birksted
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2009
Genre: Compagnonnages
ISBN: 0262026481

"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

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.

Towards a New Architecture

Towards a New Architecture
Author: Le Corbusier
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0486315649

Pioneering manifesto by founder of "International School." Technical and aesthetic theories, views of industry, economics, relation of form to function, "mass-production split," and much more. Profusely illustrated.

Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret

Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret
Author: Hélène Bauchet-Cauquil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9782909187075

Illustrated with photographs dating from the time period to the present, this book documents the architectural project and the production of the furniture, offering a definitive summary of this epic modernist enterprise. A further chapter is dedicated to the work of Lucien Hervé, the famous architectural photographer who depicted the city extensively. The architect, urban planner, painter, writer, designer and theorist Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was born in Switzerland in 1887. In 1922 Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret opened an architectural studio in Paris, inaugurating a partnership that would last until 1940. They began experimenting with furniture design after inviting the architect Charlotte Perriand to join the studio in 1928. After World War II, they sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier
Author: Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780500342909

This volume examines Le Corbusier's relationship with the topographies of five continents, in essays by thirty of the formeost scholars of his work and with contemporary photographs by Richard Pare.