Main entry:

Curtis, William J. R., author.

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier : ideas and forms / William J.R. Curtis.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Phaidon, 2015.
©2015

Description:

511 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Notes to Invention -- I. The formative years of Charles Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1922 : The home base -- In search of personal principles -- A classicism for the Jura -- Paris, purism and L'esprit nouveau -- II. Architectural ideals and social realities, 1922-1944 : Defining types for the new industrial city -- Houses, studios and villas -- Machine-age palaces and public institutions -- The structure of intentions: Villa Savoye -- Collective demonstrations: Cité de Refuge and Pavilion Suisse -- Mechanization, nature and 'Regionalism' -- Politics, urbanism and travels -- III. The ancient sense: late works, 1945-1965 : The modular, Marseilles and the Mediterranean myth -- Sacral forms, ancient associations -- Le Corbusier in India: the symbolism of Chandigarh -- The merchants of Ahmedabad -- Retrospection and invention: final projects -- IV. Principals and transformations : The realm of architectural ideas -- The genesis of forms -- The unique and the typical -- On transforming Le Corbusier -- Conclusion : Modernism, nature, tradition.

Summary:

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) has been one of the dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. But he was also a social visionary and a writer of polemics, whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy. Now fully updated with new scholarship and contemporary research, 'Le Corbusier: Ideas and forms' provides a comprehensive and unbiased survey that puts Le Corbusier in a balanced perspective and analyses his work from a contemporary context.

ISBN:

9780714868943 (hardback)
0714868949 (hardback)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, pseud. van ... Jeanneret, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier, Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, Themes, motives.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Le Corbusier.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architektur
Arkitekter.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290358
Call No.: BIB 233354
Status: Available