Main entry:

Padovan, Richard.

Title & Author:

Towards universality : Le Corbusier, Mies, and De Stijl / Richard Padovan.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Description:

xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index.
The Open or the Closed De Stijl and Le Corbusier -- De Stijl and architecture -- An art of destruction -- Mondrian: evolution from the individual-natural to the universal-abstract -- Van Doesburg: the goal of history, and four-dimensionality -- Giedion's 'authorized history' of the modern movement -- Rietveld: architecture as the construction of reality -- The Schroder house -- The De Stijl house as a fragment of a continuous city -- De Stijl openness versus the increasingly private future -- Le Corbusier: spatial interpenetration and the new spirit -- Le Corbusier's ordered compartmentation of space and time -- The tree and the semi-lattice -- Purist containment versus De Stijl continuity and multivalence -- The role of the corner junction in architecture -- De Stijl's Other Name -- The meaning of words -- 'Chinese, Greek and German philosophy' -- The way forward through architecture -- The way forward through mathematics -- The necessity of proportion -- The Furniture of the Mind -- Appearance and reality -- Appearance, reality and representation -- Representation as substitution -- The abstraction of function -- Van der Leck and Mondrian: abstract painting versus concrete architecture -- Gerrit Rietveld, furniture maker -- Donald Judd: both particular and general -- The Pavilion and the Court -- Encounters -- Three house projects -- Tent and pavilion -- Romanticism and the pavilion system -- Le Corbusier, classical architect -- Van Doesburg's architectural programme -- Standardization -- The Schroder house, Utrecht, 1924.

Summary:

Examining Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and De Stijl in relation to each other, this study excavates the philosophical foundations of the work and looks for connections between the aims and ideals of the 1920s and postmodern concerns.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0419240306 (pb)
9780419240303 (pb)
0415259622
9780415259620
0415259630
9780415259637

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Critique et interprétation.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Critique et interprétation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.
Le Corbusier.
De Stijl Künstlervereinigung
De Stijl (Art movement) Influence.
Modern movement (Architecture)
De Stijl (Mouvement artistique) Influence.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Künstlervereinigung
Architektur
Bouwkunst.
De Stijl (kunststroming)
De Stijl (Art movement)

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221489
Call No.: NA1148.5.D42 P3 2002
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available