The Open hand : essays on Le Corbusier / edited by Russell Walden.

Title & Author:

The Open hand : essays on Le Corbusier / edited by Russell Walden.

Publication:

Cambridge : MIT Press, c1977.

Description:

xiv, 484 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes quotations from Le Corbusier.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Romanticism, rationalism, and the domino system / Paul Turner -- Le Corbusier, Ruskin, the tree, and the open hand / Mary Patricia May Sekler -- Le Corbusier in an unpublished dossier and a little-known novel / Maurice Favre -- New light on Le Corbusier's early years in Paris : the La Roche-Jeanneret houses / Russell Walden -- Le Corbusier at Pessac : professional and client responsibilities / Brian Brace Taylor -- Le Corbusier on the tightrope of functionalism / Charles Jencks -- A vision of utopia : optimistic foundations of Le Corbusier's Doctrine d'urbanisme / Anthony Sutcliffe -- From the radiant city to Vichy : Le Corbusier's plans and politics, 1928-1942 / Robert Fishman -- Le Corbusier and the theological program / Martin Purdy -- Le Corbusier's technological dilemma / John Winter -- Le Corbusier at Chandigarh / Maxwell Fry -- Le Corbusier as I know him / Jane Drew -- Chandigarh as a place to live in / Madhu Sarin -- The politics of the open hand : notes on Le Corbusier and Nehru at Chandigarh / Stanislaus von Moos.
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Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0262230747
9780262230742

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Le Corbusier, (1887-1965) Critique et interprétation.
Le Corbusier.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur
Arquitetura Moderna (Franca)
Architectural design Le Corbusier 1887-1965

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Quotations (texts)

Added entries:

Walden, Russell.
Drew, Jane, 1911-1996
Favre, Maurice, 1922-
Fishman, Robert, 1946-
Fry, Maxwell, 1899-1987
Jencks, Charles
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Moos, Stanislaus von
Purdy, M. T. (Martin Terence), 1939-
Sarin, Madhu
Sekler, Mary Patricia May
Sutcliffe, Anthony, 1942-
Taylor, Brian Brace
Turner, Paul Venable
Winter, John, 1930-
Wogenscky, André, 1916-2004

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246
Call No.: NA44.L433.9 O64 1977
Status: Available

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