Main entry:

Birksted, Jan, 1946-

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier and the occult / J.K. Birksted.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2009.

Description:

xii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-395) and index.
Preamble: growing up in La Chaux-de-Fonds -- From the eighteenth century: intuitive flashes of unexpected insight -- In La Chaux-de-Fonds -- A delightful evening at the Masonic Lodge -- Which reveals itself to those it may concern -- A totally different feeling confronted my intellect -- The little vestibule that frees your mind from the street -- My ancestors' old Bible to be given to Élisa -- To Paris -- Delightful evening yesterday at the Quartier-la-Tentes' -- Knights beneficent of the Holy City -- We felt like new beings from deep inside the woods -- To be an architect is nothing, you have to be a poet -- An index card from the World War II secret police -- In the twentieth century -- The dwelling as the temple of the family.

Summary:

"Le Corbusier grew up in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a city described by Karl Marx as "one unified watchmaking industry." Among the unifying social structures of La Chaux-de-Fonds was the Loge L'Amitié, the Masonic lodge with its francophone moral, social, and philosophical ideas, including the symbolic iconography of the right angle (rectitude) and the compass (exactitude). Le Corbusier would later describe these as "my guide, my choice" and as his "time-honored ideas, ingrained and deep-rooted in the intellect, like entries from a catechism." Through exhaustive research that challenges long-held beliefs, J.K. Birksted's Le Corbusier and the Occult traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives."--Publisher.

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ISBN:

9780262026482 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262026481 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Le Corbusier.
Symbolism in architecture.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Freemasonry and the arts.
Occultism.
Compagnonnages.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Franc-maçonnerie et arts.
Occultisme.
Freimaurerei
Okkultismus
Symbolismus
Architectuurtheorieën.
Zwitserland.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261469
Call No.: BIB 192477
Status: Available