Le Corbusier Alive
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Le Corbusier Alive
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Author : Dominique Lyon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Le Corbusier Alive written by Dominique Lyon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Architecture categories.
This book offers a fresh and candid view of some of the masterpieces of modern architecture, as well as bringing some of Le Corbuiser's less famous works into a new light.
Le Corbusier
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Author : Maurice Besset
language : en
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Release Date : 1987
Le Corbusier written by Maurice Besset and has been published by Butterworth-Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Architecture categories.
Le Corbusier
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Author : George H. Marcus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Le Corbusier written by George H. Marcus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
His own metal furniture, designed in collaboration with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, was based on strict conceptions of utility and typology that nevertheless resulted in pieces that were among the most elegant and luxurious creations of modern design.".
Le Corbusier
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Author : Nicholas Fox Weber
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2008-11-11
Le Corbusier written by Nicholas Fox Weber and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings—a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture. In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism—vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru . . . Brassaï . . . Malraux (he championed Le Corbusier’s work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris) . . . Einstein . . . Matisse . . . the Steins . . . Picasso . . . Walter Gropius, and others. We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated goverments only for the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitler and Vichy rule would bring about “a marvelous transformation of society,” then renounced the doomed regime and went to work for Charles de Gaulle and his provisional government. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s fraught relationships with women (he remained celibate until the age of twenty-four and then often went to prostitutes); about his twenty-seven-year-long marriage to a woman who had no interest in architecture and forbade it being discussed at the dinner table; about his numerous love affairs during his marriage, including his shipboard romance with the twenty-three-year-old Josephine Baker, already a legend in Paris, whom he saw as a “pure and guileless soul.” She saw him as “irresistibly funny.” “What a shame you’re an architect!” she wrote. “You’d have made such a good partner!” A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived.
Le Corbusier S Formative Years
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Author : H. Allen Brooks
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999-05
Le Corbusier S Formative Years written by H. Allen Brooks and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05 with Architecture categories.
In Le Corbusier's Formative Years we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of documents that show every facet of the formative years of this influential architect. "There is much in this fine volume for anyone interested not just in architecture, but in the roots of human creativity and in the origins of the most powerful artistic current of our century. . . . This book is a life's work of scholarship. It has been well spent."—Toronto Globe and Mail
Arts And Cultures
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Author : Lawrence Mattet
language : en
Publisher: Vilo Publishing
Release Date : 2000-03
Arts And Cultures written by Lawrence Mattet and has been published by Vilo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03 with Architecture, Modern categories.
"Nearly four decades after his death, Le Corbusier, the architect of the century, is still the subject of ardent controversies and of opposing views amalgamating his urbanist theories, architectural principles, the stands he took as a man and as an artist and his untiring preaching of modernity. This does not do the architect justice. THe buildings of Le Corbusier, however, are alive and well. This book, revisiting about twenty or so of his most remarkable works, is a vivid statement to that effect. Le Corbusier Alive is a presentation of up-to-date commentaries illustrated by more than 100 documents and black and white photographs and 180 original color photographs, all previously unpublished"--Front flap.
Le Corbusier Machines For Living
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Le Corbusier Machines For Living written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Raumplan Versus Plan Libre
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Author : Adolf Loos
language : en
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Release Date : 2008
Raumplan Versus Plan Libre written by Adolf Loos and has been published by 010 Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
This revised and updated edition looks anew at the respective merits of two giants of modern architecture. As well as featuring writings by the architects themselves, the book illustrates the evolution of the work of Loos and Le Corbusier, with detailed reference to their domestic projects, ranging from the Strasser House (1919) to the Last House (1932), and from Maison Domino (1915) to Villa Savoye (1932).
Le Corbusier
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Author : Stanislaus von Moos
language : en
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Release Date : 2009
Le Corbusier written by Stanislaus von Moos and has been published by 010 Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Architecture categories.
Originally published in Germany in 1968, this first comprehensive and critical survey of Le Corbusier's life and work soon became the standard text on the architect and polymath. French, Spanish, English, Japanese and Korean editions followed, but the book has now been out of print for almost two decades. In the meantime, Le Corbusier's archives in Paris have become available for research, resulting in an avalanche of scholarship. Von Moos' critical take and the basic criteria by which the subject is organized and historicized remain surprisingly pertinent in the context of this recent jungle of Corbusier studies. This new, completely revised edition is based on the 1979 version published in English by the MIT Press but offers a substantially updated body of illustrations. Each of the seven chapters is supplemented by a critical survey of recent scholarship on the respective issues. An updated edition of this acclaimed book, an essential read for students of architecture and architectural history.
Nature And Space
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Author : Sarah Menin
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2003
Nature And Space written by Sarah Menin and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Architecture categories.
By assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influences of two of the greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, this study offers an understanding about the diversity at the heart of modernism.