Main entry:

Baker, Geoffrey H. (Geoffrey Howard)

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier, the creative search : the formative years of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret / Geoffrey H. Baker.

Publication:

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold ; London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 1996.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes statements by Le Corbusier.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-317) and index.
1. La Chaux-de-Fonds: The Art School 1901-1905 -- 2. The Villa Fallet, 1905 -- 3. The Study Tour to Italy 1907 -- 4. Vienna, The Villas Stotzer and Jacquemet, Paris, Germany 1908-1910 -- 5. The Journey to the East 1911 -- 6. La Chaux-de-Fonds 1911-1917 -- 7. The Compositional Breakthrough: Paris and Purism 1917-1920 -- 8. Vers une architecture and Urbanisme -- 9. Conclusion.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In this book, Geoffrey Baker extends the survey of Le Corbusier's architecture in his acclaimed Le Corbusier: An analysis of form to chart the way in which Le Corbusier developed his creative approach. Baker concentrates on the way a designer's mind works. He extends the analytical skills used to explain Le Corbusier's architecture into a detailed analysis of those vital early sketchbooks that form the core of Le Corbusier's education." "For the first time in a single volume, Baker provides comprehensive documentation of sketches in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Italy and on the journey to the East, including extensive English translations of Le Corbusier's notes. This assemblage of some of Le Corbusier's finest sketches is closely related to the way he designed his first homes, providing a remarkably lucid and accessible record of the working research method of a master."--Jacket.

Biographical note:

Geoffrey Baker has taught at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Open University and has been a professor at the School of Architecture, Tulane University, New Orleans and has also served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

ISBN:

0419177302 (E & FN Spon)
9780419177302 (E & FN Spon)
0442021283 (VNR)
9780442021283 (VNR)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture France Biography.
Architecture France Biographies.
Architecture.
France.

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 155237
Call No.: NA44.L433.9 B3 1996
Status: Available