Le Corbusier - Œuvre complète Volume 3: 1934-1938

Le Corbusier - Œuvre complète Volume 3: 1934-1938
Author: Max Bill
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035602891

This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close collaboration with Le Corbusier himself, and frequently reprinted ever since, the eight volumes comprise an exhaustive and singular survey of his work.

Le Corbusier - Œuvre complète Volume 7: 1957-1965

Le Corbusier - Œuvre complète Volume 7: 1957-1965
Author: Willy Boesiger
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035602972

This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close collaboration with Le Corbusier himself, and frequently reprinted ever since, the eight volumes comprise an exhaustive and singular survey of his work.

Le Corbusier - Œuvre complète Volume 8: 1965-1969

Le Corbusier - Œuvre complète Volume 8: 1965-1969
Author: Willy Boesiger
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035602999

This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close collaboration with Le Corbusier himself, and frequently reprinted ever since, the eight volumes comprise an exhaustive and singular survey of his work.

Le Corbusier in Detail

Le Corbusier in Detail
Author: Flora Samuel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0750663545

A highly original study of one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.

The Beehive Metaphor

The Beehive Metaphor
Author: Juan Antonio Ramírez
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781861890566

Juan Antonio Ramı́rez examines the complex ideological, artistic, political and architectural repercussions of apian metaphors and their influence on architecture and ecological thinking for those in the Modern Movement of architecture.

Le Corbusier. Le Couvent Sainte Marie de La Tourette / The Monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette

Le Corbusier. Le Couvent Sainte Marie de La Tourette / The Monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette
Author: Philippe Potié
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035603146

in 1952 Le Corbusier was commissioned "to dwell in the silence of men of prayer and study and to construct a church for them". The result was his impressive Convent of La Tourette, marking a significant step in modern religious architecture. Beginning with the rectangular form common to the Cirstercian monastic tradition, he created a building whose stark form contrasts beautifully with the organic elements of the interior court and the grasslands surrounding it. The church itself is a model of simplicity, the cement has been left rough and the well located sources of light evoke a feeling of silence and reflection. The order s precept of prayer, study and reflection is aptly mirrored in the architecture. Like the other Le Corbusier Guides published by Birkhäuser, this volume provides a wealth of plans, details, photographs and information on this building which today is also a conference centre.

The Environmental Imagination

The Environmental Imagination
Author: Dean Hawkes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415360862

This volume presents a chronologically ordered and detailed account of the developing relationship between technics and poetics in environmental design in architecture through a consideration of the work of major names in the field.

Le Corbusier. Les Quartiers Modernes Frugès / The Quartiers Modernes Frugès

Le Corbusier. Les Quartiers Modernes Frugès / The Quartiers Modernes Frugès
Author: Marylène Ferrand
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035603081

in 1923/24 Henry Frugès, a Bordeaux industrialist commissioned Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret with a "small workers housing estate" in Lège and a garden city in Pessac, comprising 130 to 150 houses with shops. These two housing schemes fitted neatly into the architects research on standardisation and the "machine à habiter", and provided a useful laboratory for gauging public opinion with regard to mass-production techniques in housing estates. One of the most striking features of the Cité Frugès was the use of polychromy on the exterior facades, to, in Le Corbusier's own words, "sculpt the space through the physical quality of colour - bring forward some volumes while making others recede. In short, compose with colour in the same way as we have composed with form. This is how architecture is transformed into urbanism." Historical documents and drawings make this handy-sized volume an invaluable guide for visitors and a practical introduction for all architectural enthusiasts.

Immeuble 24 N.C. et Appartement Le Corbusier. Apartment Block 24 N.C. and Le Corbusier's Home

Immeuble 24 N.C. et Appartement Le Corbusier. Apartment Block 24 N.C. and Le Corbusier's Home
Author: Jacques Sbriglio
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035604126

the construction of the apartment block at number 24, rue Nungesser et Coli in Paris, between 1931 and 1934, was an important milestone for Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. It was the first opportunity offered to them in France to put to the test theories on urbanism and architecture, which they had been working on since the 1920s ("cinq points de l architecture moderne"), and marks an important stage on the path to Brutalism. And it is of all the more interest because of the apartment and art studio Le Corbusier designed for the top two floors of the building and in which he lived from 1934 until his death in 1965. Historical documents and drawings make this handy-sized volume an invaluable guide for visitors and a practical introduction for all architectural enthusiasts.

Le Corbusier – L'Unité d habitation de Marseille / The Unité d Habitation in Marseilles

Le Corbusier – L'Unité d habitation de Marseille / The Unité d Habitation in Marseilles
Author: Jacques Sbriglio
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035603936

the Unité in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of controversial debate, the Unité in Marseille continues to attract numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the latest addition to Birkhäuser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his Unités in Rezé-les-Nantes, Briey en Forêt, Firminy and Berlin. The author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.