The architectonic colour : polychromy in the purist architecture of Le Corbusier / Jan de Heer ; [translation, George Hall].

Main entry:

Heer, Jan de.

Title & Author:

The architectonic colour : polychromy in the purist architecture of Le Corbusier / Jan de Heer ; [translation, George Hall].

Publication:

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2009.

Description:

246 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-243) and index.
Disegno and experimental aesthetics -- Purism: form, beauty and colour -- L:'Espirit Nouveau and De Stijl -- Purist architecture and colour -- Polychromy and the promenade architecturale -- Post-Purist architecture and colour -- Polychromy architecturale -- L'espace indicible.
Translated from Dutch; includes some notes in French.

Summary:

This book is an account of a significant aspect of Le Corbusier's work - the relationships between form and colour. The book relates the way in which he arrived at a personal architectonic polychromy in the early 1920s and how his theories relating to Purism developed.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9789064506710 (pbk.)
906450671X (pbk.)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Architektur Farbe.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Le Corbusier.
Color in architecture France.
Purism (Art) France.
Couleur en architecture France.
Purisme (Art) France.
Color in architecture.
Purism (Art)
Architektur
Farbe
Polychromie
France.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Hall, George.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263381
Call No.: BIB 194547
Status: Available

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