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Le Corbusier Ideas and Forms
William J. R. CurtisHow much do you like this book?
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Le Corbusier (1887-1965) has been one of the dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture and a legendary pioneering figure. Many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. Yet he was also a social visionary and a writer of powerful polemics whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy. Now available for the first time in paperback, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms provides a comprehensive and objective survey that exposes Le Corbusier through a more balanced perspective than ever before. Making full use of the Le Corbusier Archive, the author documents individual projects in detail, while linking the imaginative activities of the artist to his philosophy of life, his urban visions, his art and the cultural predicaments of his times. He analyses Le Corbusiers phenomenal powers of abstraction and synthesis, to illustrate how he created a potent architectural vocabulary based on a limited range of types and elements, and how he used it to generate architectural forms of compelling force. This intimate and meticulous study of all Le Corbusiers major buildings - from first sketches to final achievement - reveals the artists struggle to reconcile the ideal and the practical and to give institutions and ideologies a suitable symbolic form. It shows, in turn, how this most modern of architects constantly found profound inspiration in both nature and architectural tradition.
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Year:
2001
Publisher:
Phaidon
Language:
english
Pages:
243
ISBN 10:
0714827908
ISBN 13:
9780714827902
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PDF, 253.89 MB
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CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2001
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