Main entry:

Vogt, Adolf Max.

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier, the noble savage : toward an archaeology of modernism / Adolf Max Vogt ; translated by Radka Donnell.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.

Description:

xv, 365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes statements by Le Corbusier.
Translation of: Le Corbusier, der edle Wilde.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-353) and index.
pt. I. "The weight of things" : does it count longer than the name of things? -- pt. II. A hymn in praise of Pilotis-- and in praise of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- pt. III. The fisherman's hut and the huts of the Crannoges -- pt. IV. The Swiss lake-dwelling fever -- pt. V. LC's early school years and their dreams of primary origins -- pt. VI. Why LC "knows" what modernism is.
"Les 5 Points" (1926) : new building material, a new house -- The box on Pilotis as a leitmotif -- Does the cell partition contradict the dream of Pilotis? -- A steep by consistent climb toward the Villa Savoye and the Palace of the League of Nations -- LC in Istanbul (1911) : the oriel principle (cikma construction) -- Istanbul (1911) : the summer house on the waterfront (yali) -- Istanbul (1911) : the paviliion (kösk) -- The Buenos Aires pulpit -- The "airy grove of Pilotis" (la forêt légère des Pilotis) -- A hymn in praise of the shores of Lake Geneva -- A Cathar battles against the dark and musty cellars of the Old World -- A reform of the city from the ground up -- Unexpected illuminations (éclairs inattendus) -- Leading Jean-Jacques Rousseau's sheep to pasture -- From the fisherman's hut to the palace : LC's architectural analogy to Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The President's Pavilion as the crowning of the League of Nations concept -- LC's archaeological drawings and the huts of the Crannoges -- The discovery of the lake dwellings on the Lake of Zurich (1854) -- Pacific lake dwellings and their illustrator, Louis-Antoine de Sainson -- How are pile-work constructions and life above water to be explained? -- Buildings on stilts -- Findings on the Lake of Neuchâtel and the 1867 Exposition universelle in Paris -- The Helvetian appropriation of New Guinea villages on pile-work above the water -- The influence of the paleontologist Cuvier on the Swiss reconstruction of the primeval world -- The haptic joys of closeness to live : the building model gains dominant significance -- The painters of lake-dwelling romanticism -- Back to LC's early school years : Froebel's geometric "gifts" in kindergarten -- Lake-dwelling fever in the elementary school -- The father, the school, the Canton of Valais -- Viollet-le-Duc in Lausanne, mirror images -- The double imprint of the primary -- The formative imprint of the cultural geography of the Suisse-Romande on the young LC -- Why LC knows for certain what modernism is.
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Translated from the German.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This revelatory study is the most unexpected and vital piece of Le Corbusier scholarship to appear in years. Adolf Max Vogt looks to the early, formative years of the architect's life as a key to understanding his mature practice, taking aim at such fundamental riddles as "Where did his design vocabulary come from?" and "How was his aesthetic sense formed?" Vogt's investigation of LC's early life and education not only reveals important, previously unacknowledged influences on specific projects such as the League of Nations headquarters and the Villa Savoye, but also suggests why LC throughout his career preferred to lift buildings above the ground, to give them the appearance of "floating." This tendency had decisive consequences for buildings associated with the modern movement and continues to influence architecture today. By uncovering crucial dimensions of LC's early life and resurrecting primary documents and source materials overlooked by other scholars, this book changes the face of LC studies.

ISBN:

0262220563 (alk. paper)
9780262220569 (alk. paper)
0262720337
9780262720335

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Critique et interprétation.
Le Corbusier, (1887-1965)
LeCorbusier Architektur Pfahlbau.
Functionalism (Architecture)
Architecture Switzerland 20th century.
Architecture Suisse 20e siècle.
Fonctionnalisme (Architecture)
functionalism.
Architecture
Gebouwen.
Architects France 20th century.
Fonctionnalisme (architecture)
Pfahlbau Architektur LeCorbusier.
Switzerland

Form/genre:

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

Added entries:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Donnell, Radka, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200795
Call No.: NA44.L433.9 V6 1998
Status: Available