Main entry:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.

Title & Author:

Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning : with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by the temperature of Paris and the atmosphere of Moscow / Le Corbusier ; translated by Edith Schreiber Aujame.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1991.

Description:

xiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme.
Spine title: Precisions.
Includes bibliographical references.
To free oneself entirely of academic thinking -- Techniques are the very basis of poetry -- Architecture in everything, city planning in everything -- A dwelling at human scale -- The undertaking of furniture -- The plan of the modern house -- A man = a dwelling, dwellings = a city : the plan of a contemporary city of three million inhabitants -- A house, a palace : the search for architectural unity -- The Voisin Plan for Paris : can Buenos Aires become one of the great cities of the world? -- The world city and some perhaps untimely considerations -- Appendix. The temperature of Paris ; The atmosphere of Moscow ; "An aside."
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Translation of: Précision sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme.

ISBN:

0262121492 (hc)
9780262121491 (hc)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
City planning History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture projets Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanisme Philosophie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
City planning.
Projets d'architecture 20e siècle.
Urbanisme Philosophie 20e siècle.
Architecture

Form/genre:

Lectures.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 152129
Call No.: NA44.L433.A35 1991
Status: Available