Main entry:

Brooks, H. Allen (Harold Allen), 1925-2010.

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier's formative years : Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds / H. Allen Brooks.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Description:

xi, 514 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes statements by Le Corbusier.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Color Plates -- I. La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1887-1907 -- 1. Childhood and Early Schooling, 1887-1907 -- 2. L'Ecole d'Art and Earliest Designs, 1902-1907 -- II. Travels and Apprenticeships, 1907-1911 -- 3. Travels in Northern Italy, 1907 -- 4. Vienna and Two Villa Designs, Winter 1907-1908 -- 5. Paris: Auguste Perret and the Search for an Ideal, 1908-1909 -- 6. Swiss Interlude: Jeanneret's Sojourn at Home -- 7. Germany and Jeanneret's Awakening: Peter Behrens and the Deutscher Werkbund, 1910-1911 -- 8. Voyage d'Orient, 1911 -- III. Early Professional Career, 1912-1916 -- 9. The Villas Jeanneret-Perret and Favre-Jacot and Jeanneret's Role as Teacher, 1912-1914 -- 10. Dom-ino, La Scala, the Villa Schwob, and Furniture Design, 1914-1916 -- IV. Postscript -- The Transitional Years: Jeanneret's Move to Paris, 1917-1920 -- Jeanneret's Publications, 1910-1919 -- Index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

H. Allen Brooks, during twenty years of painstaking research, has unearthed an extraordinary wealth of letters, diaries, family records, school reports, and unpublished sketches and drawings that document, beginning from birth, every facet of the formative years of the twentieth-century's most influential architect and urbanist. For the first time we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer, that he was. Le Corbusier's Formative Years examines, drawing on precise data, every aspect of Le Corbusier's education from preschool through his training as a designer of ornamental watch cases and his early studies in decoration and architectural design. As a young man he traveled extensively, studying in Paris and Berlin before returning home to La Chaux-de-Fonds to teach and practice architecture, interior decoration, and furniture design. Finally, in 1917, he moved to Paris, where, after several unsuccessful years as an entrepreneur, he turned his talents to writing, painting, architecture, and urban design.

ISBN:

0226075796 (paperback)
9780226075792 (paperback)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Childhood and youth.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Architects France Biography.
Architects Switzerland Biography.
Architectes France Biographies.
Architectes Suisse Biographies.
Childhood and youth of a person
Architects
France
Switzerland

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
Biographies.

Added entries:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

Holdings:

Location: Library main 155728
Call No.: NA44.L433.9 B7 1997
Status: Available