Le Corbusier : architect and visionary / Kenneth Frampton.

Main entry:

Frampton, Kenneth.

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier : architect and visionary / Kenneth Frampton.

Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 The Formative Years 1887-1916 8 -- 2 Towards a New Architecture 1917-1927 20 -- 3 The City of Tomorrow 1910-1933 46 -- 4 Decorative Art Today 1925-1937 58 -- 5 A House, A Palace 1923-1929 70 -- 6 World Architect: Czechoslovakia, Russia, Brazil, North Africa, North America, France and Switzerland 1928-1936 88 -- 7 The Politics of the Unpolitical: Le Corbusier and Saint-Simonian Technocracy 1923-1947 116 -- 8 From Intermediate Technology to Regional Urbanization 1929-1946 130 -- 9 Towards a New Habitat 1922-1960 150 -- 10 The Sacred and the Profane: Le Corbusier and Spiritual Form 1948-1965 167 -- 11 Passage to India 1950-1965 184 -- 12 Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit 200 -- 13 Fin d'un Monde: The Last Works 1939-1965 214.

Summary:

"Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes - his perennial drive towards new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Vision of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and historian Kenneth Frampton re-examines all these facets of his artistic and philosophical world-view in light of recent thinking, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0500203415 (paperback)
9780500203415 (paperback)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Architecture France.
Architects France Biography.
Architectes France Biographies.
Architects.
Architecture.
France.

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
Biographies.

Added entries:

World of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218818
Call No.: NA44.L433.9 F72 2001
Status: Available

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