Title & Author:

Le Corbusier : history and tradition / ed. Armando Rabaça.

Publication:

Coimbra : Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Collected essays.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965), pseud. of Charles Édouard Jeanneret-Gris.
Includes bibliographical references.
Architecture as a work of art and the sense of the historical whole : an introduction to Le Corbusier, history and tradition / Armando Rabaça -- Aigist Klipstein's Orient-Reise, companion to Le Corbusier's Journey to the East, 1911 -- Living with objects -- learning from objects: Le Corbusier's 'collection particulière" -- Le Corbusier : a modern monk / David Leatherbarrow -- Urban history and new directions : the role of Brinckmann and Laugier for Le Corbusier's Urban design theory / Christoph Schnoor -- Hadrian's Villa and spatial dialogue in Le Corbusier's houses / Francesco Passanti -- Le Corbusier and the French tradition / Johan Linton -- CIAM's GHOSTS : Le Corbusier, art and War World II / Stanislaus von Moos -- Between Indian tradition and Corbusian modernity : the case of the Villa Hutheesing-Shodhan / María Candela Suárez.
Text in English.

Summary:

"The view of modernism as representing an epistemological break between technology and history and tradition has long been challenged. Le Corbusier's work has proved to be an inexhaustible reference point in this debate. This is due, on the one hand, to the legacy of nineteenth-century historicism, and on the other to his creative process of creation through destruction which, as John Summerson has noted, is comparable to the processes of avant-garde poets and painters. The contributions to this book explore particular episodes which bring to light both the operative role of the past in the creation of a new abstract synthesis, and Le Corbusier's modernist historical consciousness. They illustrate how the past participated in the modernist creative process of abstract art, from the 1920s machine aesthetics to the late infatuation with myth. They also shed light on the extent to which the operative quality of the history was framed by a comprehensive historical vision that took the form of metanarrative, which neither the analytical studies on his architecture nor the synthetic approaches to his philosophical thinking should dismiss"--Https://digitalis.uc.pt/en/livro/le_corbusier_history_and_tradition

Resources:
TOC
Table of contents

ISBN:

9789892613376
9892613376
9789892613383
9892613384

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Architects France.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectes France.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architects.
Architecture, Modern.
France.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Rabaça, Armando, 1968- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299830
Call No.: BIB 245991
Status: Available