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Le Corbusier / Kenneth Frampton.
Fine Arts Library NA1053.J4 F73 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frampton, Kenneth.
- Series:
- World of art
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
- Le Corbusier.
- Architecture--France.
- Architecture.
- France.
- Architects--France--Biography.
- Architects.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2001.
- Summary:
- Le Corbusier is probably the most famous and certainly the most controversial architect of the twentieth century. His impact on the urban fabric around us and on the way we live has been gigantic because of the richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture.
- Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes -- his perennial drive toward new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unite d'Habitation at Marseille; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and historian Kenneth Frampton reexamines all these facets of his artistic and philosophical worldview in the light of recent discoveries, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the twenty-first century.
- Contents:
- 1 The Formative Years 1887-1916 8
- 2 Towards a New Architecture 1917-1927 20
- 3 The City of Tomorrow 1910-1933 46
- 4 Decorative Art Today 1925-1937 58
- 5 A House, A Palace 1923-1929 70
- 6 World Architect: Czechoslovakia, Russia, Brazil, North Africa, North America, France and Switzerland 1928-1936 88
- 7 The Politics of the Unpolitical: Le Corbusier and Saint-Simonian Technocracy 1923-1947 116
- 8 From Intermediate Technology to Regional Urbanization 1929-1946 130
- 9 Towards a New Habitat 1922-1960 150
- 10 The Sacred and the Profane: Le Corbusier and Spiritual Form 1948-1965 167
- 11 Passage to India 1950-1965 184
- 12 Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit 200
- 13 Fin d'un Monde: The Last Works 1939-1965 214.
- Notes:
- "With 191 illustrations."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0500203415
- OCLC:
- 45899335
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