Le Corbusier : ideas and forms / William J.R. Curtis.

Author/creator Curtis, William J. R. author.
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
PublicationLondon ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press Limited, 2015.
Copyright Date©2015
Description511 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Subjects

Contents Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction: Notes to Invention -- [Part] 1. The formative years of Charles Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1922 -- II. Architectural ideals and social realities, 1922-1944 -- III. The ancient sense: late works, 1945-1965 -- IV. Principals and transformations.
Summary Le Corbusier (1887-1965) has been one of the dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. But he was also a social visionary and a writer of polemics, whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy. Now fully updated with new scholarship and contemporary research, 'Le Corbusier: Ideas and forms' provides a comprehensive and unbiased survey that puts Le Corbusier in a balanced perspective and analyses his work from a contemporary context.
General notePrevious edition: New York: Rizzoli, 1986.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 476-503) and index.
ISBN9780714868943 (hbk.)
ISBN0714868949 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks NA1053 .J4 C8 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold