Main entry:

Samuel, Flora.

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier and the architectural promenade / Flora Samuel.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, 2010.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index.
Part 1. Initiation : Synchronisation of the senses : Rhythms of the body ; Scale ; Music ; Light ; Colour ; Sensory stimulation -- The evocation of space and time : Perspective ; Framing ; Resistance ; Time and progress -- Ordering initiation : Rhetoric ; Montage ; Transcending time ; Orphic initiation ; The alchemical journey ; The oracle of the holy bottle ; La Sainte Baume -- Part 2. Solid words: the rhetoric of architecture : Elements of the architectural promenade : Threshold or introduction ; Sensitising vestibule ; Questioning: savoir habiter ; Reorientation ; Culmination -- The Jacob's ladder type promenade : Maison la Roche 1923-24 ; Villa Savoye 1929-31 -- Overlapping narratives of domestic space : Penthouse, Flat 7, 24 Rue Nungesser et Coli 1933 ; Maison Jaoul B 1955-57 -- Complex narratives of public life : Usine Duval 1946-51 ; Maison du Brésil 1957-59 ; La Tourette 1956-59 -- Conclusion.

Summary:

This is the first in-depth and authoritative treatment of a key concept in Le Corbusier's work.

ISBN:

9783034606073 (hbk.)
3034606079 (hbk.)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Space (Architecture)
Architectural design.
Architecture Human factors.
Espace (Architecture)
Design architectural.
Architecture Facteurs humains.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270484
Call No.: BIB 203242
Status: Available