1984
| This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe in 1911. In a flood of highly personal impressions and visual notations, it records his first contact with the vernacular architecture that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life and his first sight of the monuments he most admired: the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon. Le Corbusier himsel....[more] |
1970
| This pioneering proclamation by the great architect expounds Le Corbusier's technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, the relation of form to function, "mass-production spirit," and much more. Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of Le Corbusier's buildings and other important structures. |
1971
| Among the most famous of Le Corbusier's works, this book first came out in 1925 as a companion volume to Towards a New Architectureand The City of Tomorrow, two of the most influential writings on architecture and town planning Le Corbusier produced. This is the first English translation of Le Corbusier's densely illustrated polemic against the crafts tradition and superfluous ornament in interior decoration. The Decorative Art of Todaywas inspired by and written in protest to the Decorative Art....[more] |
2007
| Few books of the twentieth century drew as much attention as Le Corbusier's vers une architecture (1923), published in English as towards a new architecture (1927). Its provocative slogans and striking juxtapositions of temples with machines inspired architects to design housing that met the demands of modern life. This new translation preserves the design and compelling voice of the original. A revealing introduction - including exciting discoveries reading Le Corbusier's manipulation of images....[more] |
2009
| Upon completing the eponymous Le Corbusier Building in Berlin in 1958, the pioneering Modernist architect Le Corbusier described the building as rising up to, a monumental size without taking from any of its parts their respect for the individual, physical and subjective dimension." Le Corbusier had confronted Berliners, in their divided city, with his concept of communal living--a 17-story reinforced-concrete building containing 557 apartments, with only nine corridors to provide access to all....[more] |
2000
| Le Corbusier fasst in diesem seinem ersten Buch jene erregenden Aufsätze über Architektur zusammen, die er 1920/22 für die Zeitschrift Esprit Nouveau schrieb. Vers une Architecture wurde eines der einflussreichsten und zugleich am wenigsten verstandenen Architekturbücher des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es gilt als einer der grossen Vor-Entwürfe für neues Bauen. |
1998
| -- Brings all of the essential information on Le Corbusier into one volume-- Highly illustrated, mainly with Le Corbusier's own drawings-- Must-have purchase for every student of architecture and architectural history, as well as every practicing architect |
1998
| Die Entstehungsgeschichte und Realisierung des kleinen Hauses am Genfersee, das Le Corbusier 1925 in der Nähe von Vevey für seine Eltern projektiert und gebaut hat. Das Buch enthält zahlreiche Darstellungen mit Photos und Skizzen, ergänzt um Zeichnungen Le Corbusiers von 1945 und einen sehr poetischen Text. (Mehrsprachige Ausgabe: Französisch, Deutsch, Englisch) |
1991
| This first English translation of Precisions reproduces the original book published in French in 1930, with an introduction added by the author in 1960. It is a spontaneous and exuberant series of 10 lectures Le Corbusier gave in Buenos Aires during the fall of 1929. As he spoke Le Corbusier improvised drawings on large sheets of paper with crayons. While similar drawings appear in other works, here all the lectures and images appear in their original context as Le Corbusier assembled them. Pre....[more] |
1987
| "Während einer Reihe von Jahren habe ich in der ganzen Welt Vorträge gehalten. Ich habe erfahren, wie unterschiedlich das Klima ist, wie verschieden die Rassen, wie verschieden die Kulturen - und wie verrückt verschieden voneinander die Menschen überall sind. Bedenken Sie für einen Augenblick folgendes: Die Männer wie auch die Frauen haben einen Kopf, zwei Augen, eine Nase, einen Mund, zwei Ohren usw. Zu Milliarden sind sie über die Erde verstreut -, und wenn zwei Männer oder zwei Fraue....[more] |
1986
| The great revolutionary architect's probing analysis of urban problems and their origins, and his bold solutions, which include the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris, and the more developed scheme for a "City of Three Million Inhabitants." Introduction. Foreword. 133 black-and-white illustrations. 82 black-and-white halftones. |
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