Corbusier Ideas & Forms

William Curtis
Corbusier Ideas & Forms
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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 available for the first time in paperback, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms provides a comprehensive and unbiased survey that puts le Corbusier in a more balanced perspective. Making full use of the Le Corbusier archive, the author documents individual projects in detail, whilst linking the imaginative activities of the artist to his philosophy of life, to his urban visions, to his art and to the cultural predicaments of his times. He analyses Le Corbusier's phenomenal powers of abstraction and synthesis, showing how he created a potent architectural vocabulary based on a limited range of types and elements, and how he used it to generate architectural forms of compelling force. Close study of all Le Corbusier's major buildings, from first sketches to final achievement, reveals the artists struggle to reconcile the ideal and the practical and to give institutions and ideologies a suitable symbolic form. It is also reveals how this most 'modern' of architects constantly found inspiration in nature and in architectural tradition.'William J.R Curtis is the best architectural historian writing in the English language, and that alone makes this book something of an event'. (Paul Gapp, Chicago Truibune) 'This is not only the best single work on Le Corbusier - a model of scholarship, erudite yet eminently readable - it is also an invaluable analysis of the creative architectural process. It should be read and re-read by every student of architecture'. (David Wild, Building Design) 'It is as incisive narrative, informed by biography and illuminated by penetrating critical commentary, that this book excels'. (William H Jordy, T. L. S.) 'An admirable introduction to Le Corbusier`s life and work. It is also a record of personal observation and synthesis by an informed and shrewdly sensitive author which will remain valid and fresh long term'. (Peter Buchanan, Architectural Review) 'The most lucid and complete chronicle yet available of Le Corbusier`s achievement. This book excels'. (AIA Journal)
Data wydania: 1997
ISBN: 978-0-7148-2790-2, 9780714827902
Język: angielski
Wydawnictwo: Phaidon Press Ltd

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