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In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the(...)
The rhetoric of modernism: Le Corbusier as a lecturer
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In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the arguments and strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing highlights and fuses them into an architectural conception that every advanced architectural position and practice must still come to terms with today.
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Like a ship cast on the shore by some Mediterranean tempest, the E 1027 house, built in 1929 by legendary Irish designer Eileen Gray with and for her architect friend Jean Badovici, was little more, seventy years later, than a desolate wreck. But since 2014 an exceptional combination of the knowledge and skills of a whole host of architects and historians, coupled with(...)
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May 2022
E 1027 : Restoring a house by the sea
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Like a ship cast on the shore by some Mediterranean tempest, the E 1027 house, built in 1929 by legendary Irish designer Eileen Gray with and for her architect friend Jean Badovici, was little more, seventy years later, than a desolate wreck. But since 2014 an exceptional combination of the knowledge and skills of a whole host of architects and historians, coupled with a harmonious collaboration between public authorities and private initiative, have succeeded in setting the building afloat again. E 1027 can now be seen with all the beauty of its original lines, a white vessel emerging from a lemon grove with its blue awning as a sail. Up till now only familiar through the black and white pictures of the albums of its time, its interiors bring together ingenious pieces of furniture and a collection of chairs, lamps and mirrors which have acquired iconic status, and which have been meticulously restored. The heart of this book is a guided tour through this resuscitated architectural masterpiece, with details of its remarkable furnishings and decoration, all illustrated with the photographs of Manuel Bougot.
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Le Corbusier's Pavilion for Zurich uses numerous handwritten documents, drawings, and papers to trace the history of Le Corbusier's last built work. This dwelling, which is also a museum, was initiated by Zurich gallery owner Heidi Weber. With its abstract forms and colors, it represents an intellectual legacy of the famous architect in which the further development of(...)
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Le Corbusier's Pavilion for Zurich: model and prototype of an ideal exhibition space
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Le Corbusier's Pavilion for Zurich uses numerous handwritten documents, drawings, and papers to trace the history of Le Corbusier's last built work. This dwelling, which is also a museum, was initiated by Zurich gallery owner Heidi Weber. With its abstract forms and colors, it represents an intellectual legacy of the famous architect in which the further development of architecture as envisaged by Le Corbusier is clearly legible. From the first ideas and sketches from and beyond, the genesis of this exceptional building - the completion of which the architect did not live to see - is presented with illustrations and documents. This book explains the significance of the pavilion, which differs strongly from the beton brut of Le Corbusier's late work, in terms of its position as one of the architect's central and forward-looking works.
The modernist home
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The Modernist house was a test of modern architects’ ability to meet human needs while fuelling the intellect. "The Modernist home" reveals the striking results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to day-to-day living. The Modernist house dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernising the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior(...)
The modernist home
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The Modernist house was a test of modern architects’ ability to meet human needs while fuelling the intellect. "The Modernist home" reveals the striking results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to day-to-day living. The Modernist house dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernising the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the open air. Tim Benton uncovers its elements: from the technology that provided central heating and electric lighting; to new construction materials, such as concrete and steel; to close-ups on features like winter gardens and folding furniture. He opens the door on Modernist houses around the world, from Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, all fully illustrated with colour photographs and plans.
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A decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph "Le Corbusier Le Grand" is finally available in a new paperback edition. Documenting the life and work of one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design, the book presents an array of sketches, photographs, and correspondences, charting the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, an artist who(...)
Le Corbusier Le Grand (paperback)
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A decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph "Le Corbusier Le Grand" is finally available in a new paperback edition. Documenting the life and work of one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design, the book presents an array of sketches, photographs, and correspondences, charting the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, an artist who continues to fascinate those inside and outside the architectural world.
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Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer provides new insights into Le Corbusier's visual imagination, his changing attitudes towards nature and materials in the 1930s, and his distrust of progress. While Le Corbusier always claimed that he saw no virtue in taking photographs, he actually bought three cameras and took several hundred photographs between 1907 and 1917, many of(...)
Le Corbusier: secret photographer
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Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer provides new insights into Le Corbusier's visual imagination, his changing attitudes towards nature and materials in the 1930s, and his distrust of progress. While Le Corbusier always claimed that he saw no virtue in taking photographs, he actually bought three cameras and took several hundred photographs between 1907 and 1917, many of them of publishable quality. In 1936 he acquired a 16mm movie camera and took 120 sequences of film and nearly 6,000 photographs with it. This previously unpublished material is the basis for the publication.
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C’est en 1937 que Le Corbusier découvre Roquebrune-Cap-Martin et la villa de Jean Badovici E-1027, dessinée en grande partie par l’irlandaise Eileen Gray entre 1927 et 1929. Il y revient en 1938 et en 1939. Impressionné par l’ingéniosité et le charme de la villa il passe des moments agréables face à la mer et mène une vie tranquille et simple, au contact de la(...)
Le Corbusier, peintre à Cap-Martin
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C’est en 1937 que Le Corbusier découvre Roquebrune-Cap-Martin et la villa de Jean Badovici E-1027, dessinée en grande partie par l’irlandaise Eileen Gray entre 1927 et 1929. Il y revient en 1938 et en 1939. Impressionné par l’ingéniosité et le charme de la villa il passe des moments agréables face à la mer et mène une vie tranquille et simple, au contact de la nature.Alors que la peinture murale est en complète contradiction avec sa définition de l’architecture comme « pur jeu de lumière et de volumes », Le Corbusier va réaliser sur ce site divers muraux, tant dans la villa d’Eileen Gray que sur les murs de L’Étoile de mer et sur les parois de son Cabanon. L’auteur revient sur les différents facteurs ayant conduit à cette conversion et replace cette évolution de l’architecte dans le contexte plus général de la peinture murale à cette période. Cet ouvrage documente, pour la première fois, l’ensemble de cet œuvre peint et dessiné, toujours existant pour la majeure partie, et donne également à voir un Le Corbusier plus libre et véritable amoureux de la Méditerranée.
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L'art déco, nom donné au style "moderne" du XXe siècle, connut un rayonnement mondial pendant l'entre-deux-guerres. Il laissa son empreinte dans presque tous les domaines visuels, des beaux-arts à l'architecture, de la décoration à la mode et au textile, du cinéma à la photographie.
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January 1900, Tournai
L'Art déco dans le monde : 1910-1939
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L'art déco, nom donné au style "moderne" du XXe siècle, connut un rayonnement mondial pendant l'entre-deux-guerres. Il laissa son empreinte dans presque tous les domaines visuels, des beaux-arts à l'architecture, de la décoration à la mode et au textile, du cinéma à la photographie.
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January 1900, Tournai
Interior Design
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Ce livre éclaire une période décisive et féconde du travail de Le Corbusier, quand l’originalité de son architecture s’affirme, à l’époque de ses premiers livres théoriques et de la revue L’Esprit Nouveau. Rendant compte d'une recherche de l'auteur qui s'est poursuivi sur près de vingt ans autour de la question de l'habitation moderne, ce volume préfigure un second qui(...)
Les villas parisiennes de Le Corbusier 1920-1930
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Ce livre éclaire une période décisive et féconde du travail de Le Corbusier, quand l’originalité de son architecture s’affirme, à l’époque de ses premiers livres théoriques et de la revue L’Esprit Nouveau. Rendant compte d'une recherche de l'auteur qui s'est poursuivi sur près de vingt ans autour de la question de l'habitation moderne, ce volume préfigure un second qui portera sur la dualité typiquement corbuséenne de la "machine à habiter" au regard de la "coquille d'escargot".
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November 2007
Architecture Monographs
le Corbusier le Grand
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Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The self-named Le Corbusier was not only the creator of some of the most important and impressive buildings of the last century--Villa Savoye at Poissy, the Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamp, the capitol complex in Chandigarh, India--he was also an accomplished painter,(...)
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May 2008, New York
le Corbusier le Grand
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Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The self-named Le Corbusier was not only the creator of some of the most important and impressive buildings of the last century--Villa Savoye at Poissy, the Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamp, the capitol complex in Chandigarh, India--he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor, furniture designer, urbanist, and author. His work and social theories continue to be a dominant force in the world of architecture and design, while his elegant bearing, bow tie, and round black eyeglasses are still today a signature look for architects around the world. Le Corbusier Le Grand’s oversized format and luxurious binding reflect the legendary status of this “giant” of twentieth-century architecture and design. The book includes an insightful introductory essay by France’s most authoritative architectural historian and critic, Jean-Louis Cohen, and incisive chapter introductions by highly regarded Le Corbusier scholar Tim Benton. A separate booklet includes translations of documents, many of which have never been translated into English before.
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