Le Corbusier and the continual revolution in architecture / Charles Jencks.

Main entry:

Jencks, Charles.

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier and the continual revolution in architecture / Charles Jencks.

Publication:

New York, NY : Monacelli Press, 2000.

Description:

381 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes excerpts from texts by Le Corbusier.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dress rehearsal in a small town -- The hero of the heroic period -- Back to nature -- Monumental and symbolic architecture.
Dust jacket.
Includes ill. of grain elevator in Canada (p. 113).

Summary:

"Taking into account recent scholarship and new theories of architectural change, noted architectural historian Charles Jencks traces the personal and professional development of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who would be known to the world as Le Corbusier, beginning with his family background and early training in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, where he cultivated a regionalist style that would be the first of many aesthetic identities to be exploited and then shed throughout his long career. Soon after leaving La Chaux-de-Fonds for Paris, Jeanneret, in association with the Purist painter Amedee Ozenfant, gained fame in the 1920s under the nom de plume Le Corbusier, publishing the journal L'Esprit Nouveau and four seminal Modernist tracts: Towards a New Architecture, The City of Tomorrow, The Decorative Art of Today, and La Peinture Moderne (Modern Painting). Jencks demonstrates the influence of these classic texts by way of the architect's major projects of the period: Villa La Roche, Workers' Housing at Pessac, the Plan Voisin for Paris, Villa Stein, Villa Savoye, and the steel furniture, including the famed grand confort and chaise longue." "Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture presents over two hundred illustrations including architectural drawings, plans, and photographs, as well as paintings, sketches, and publication facsimiles. With this illuminating collection of images and his revealing and provocative text, Charles Jencks has produced a compelling and comprehensive analysis of the twentieth-century master who continually stayed well ahead of his followers to reinvent the art of architecture over and over again."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

1580930778
9781580930772

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Aesthetics.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, (1887-1965) Critique et interprétation.
Architects France Biography.
Architectes France Biographies.
Architects Biography
Architects
Gebouwen.
Stedenbouw.
Architecture.
Architects France 20th century.
France

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Biographies.
quotations (texts)
Quotations
Citations.
Quotations (texts)

Added entries:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214212
Call No.: NA44.L433.9 J38 2000
Status: Available

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