Main entry:

Maak, Niklas.

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier : the architect on the beach / Niklas Maak.

Publication:

Munich : Hirmer, ©2011.

Description:

207 pages : facsimiles, illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207).
The beaches of Modernism -- The other Oeuvre -- Shell passages -- Architecture and literature: the architect as 'poet' -- Le Corbusier and Paul Valéry -- From Palissy to Ronchamp: the prehistory of the architect on the beach and the invention of a new notion of space -- Ronchamp as a philosophical construct -- The architect on the beach and the consequences: a short postscript.
Originally published in German: Munich : Hanser, 2010, under title: Der Architekt am Strand : Le Corbusier und das Geheimnis der Seeschnecke. 9783446234994
In English; translated from the German.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9783777439914
3777439916

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Architects France Biography.
Architecture Philosophy 20th century.
Architectes France Biographies.
Architecture Philosophie 20e siècle.
Architects
Architecture Philosophy
France

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Books.

Added entries:

Architect on the beach

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275050
Call No.: NA44.L433.9 M33 2011
Status: Available