Le Corbusier : béton brut and ineffable space, 1940-1965 : surface materials and psychophysiology of vision / Roberto Gargiani, Anna Rosellini ; translated from the Italian by Stephan Piccolo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gargiani, Roberto, 1956-

Contributor:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

Rosellini, Anna

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Essays in architecture

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965--Criticism and interpretation.

Le Corbusier.

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.

Building materials.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

590 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Béton brut and ineffable space, 1940-1965

Surface materials and psychophysiology of vision

Place of Publication:

Lausanne, Switzerland : EFPL Press ; Abingdon, Oxford ; New York, NY : Distributed by Routledge, [2011]

Summary:

Béton brut and ineffable space: two concepts defined by Le Corbusier after World War II that speak about a stronger dialogue between materials and artistic vision of his work. Invented to designate his own particular use of exposed concrete, béton burt is analyzed from different perspectives: its fabrication with a rigorous selection of its constituent materials; its textural imprint obtained by a refined assembly of formwork; and the treatment of its surface with special types of paint.

In the synthesis of his artistic vision, ineffable space is explained in all its forms and meanings, from the insertion of the tapestries and paint in the qualification of the spaces, to the way in which photography is used to study the unexpressed potentialities of architecture and painting.

The genesis of the space of Le Corbusier's works, the quality of construction materials, and questions of optics, artistic vision and the psychophysiology of perception are analysed in relationship with the contemporary artistic phenomena, such as the automatisms of Breton, the Art Brut of Dubuffet, the Concrete Music of Varèse, Klein's research on monochromes, Pop Art and the concept of transfer.

In this essay, a new vision is revealed about the last and fundamental works of Le Corbusier. Book jacket.

Contents:

The discovery of béton brut with malfaçons : the worksite of the Unité d'habitation at Marseille

Acrobat training : the provocateur of new forms

Unités d'habitation at Rezé-Lès-Nantes, Berlin, and Briey-en-Forêt

Chandigarh, or the cosmic vision

Brutal skin in pisé, brick, and wood

Machines à habiter for tropical visions and climates

Automatisms and projections of sounds and images

Toward a new stereotomy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

0415681715

9782940222506

2940222509

9780415681711

OCLC:

707965992

Publisher Number:

99947457927