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Le Corbusier
Architectural poetry in the machine age
"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light."
- Le Corbusier
Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L`Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it wasn`t until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unité d`Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.
About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:
- approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
- introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
- the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
- an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings
About the author:
In 1997, the French Minister of Culture appointed Jean-Louis Cohen to create the Cité de l'architecture, a museum, research, and exhibition center in Paris’s Palais de Chaillot. His research activity has been chiefly focused on 20th-century architecture and urban planning. He has studied German and Soviet architectural cultures in particular, and interpreted extensively Le Corbusier's work and Paris planning history. Cohen is the author and curator of many architecture books and exhibitions.
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Le Corbusier
Gössel, Peter (ED)
Cohen, Prof. Jean-Louis Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages, $ 9.99 |
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"Après un stimulant et accessible essai d`ensemble, qui satisfera autant le néophyte que le connaisseur, Cohen présente, sur deux ou quatre pages, vingt-cinq réalisations incontournables de l`architecte. Le rapport compacité-intérêt-prix de cet ouvrage semble difficilement égalable. "
D'A, Paris, France
D'A, Paris, France
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Alprajz, Hungary, July 18, 2007
Alprajz, Hungary, July 18, 2007