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Le Corbusier: A Life
Nicholas Fox Weber
Knopf
Knopf
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints —the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in...
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Le Corbusier (World of Art)
Kenneth Frampton, Le Corbusier
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
Le Corbusier is probably the most famous and certainly the most controversial architect of the twentieth century. His impact on the urban fabric around us and on the way we live has been gigantic because of the richness and variety of his work and...
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Le Corbusier - English Edition: Voyage D'orient Carnets
Guiliano Gresleri
Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press
Le Corbusier, the brilliant architect of the 20th century, always carried along a sketchbook, a kind of diary in which, observing the "grand tour" tradition and the "fads" of famous 19th-century travellers, he amassed observations, calculations,...
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Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms
William J R Curtis
Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press
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. He was also a social visionary and a writer of polemics, whose ideas have...
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Le Corbusier in Detail
Flora Samuel
Architectural Press
Architectural Press
This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings. It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier's details were expressive of his overall philosophical intentions. It is not a construction book...
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Total Living: Art, Fashion, Design, Architecture, Communication
Dietmar Steiner, Michele Ciavarella, Emanuela De Cecco, Ricardo Dirindin, Roberto Monelli, Herbert Muschamp, Chee Pearlman, Michelle Serenini, Dejan Sudjic, Lina Bo Bardi, Alberto Mollino, Gio Ponti, Vanessa Beecroft, Andreas Gursky, Dan Flavin, Issey Miyake
Charta
Charta
Styles and lifestyles are fast becoming uniform under labels and definitions of fashion, and as an industry and a cultural form. Total Living is the point of no return in a project which, step-by-step, develops strategies whose goal it is to offer...
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Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture
Le Corbusier
Vitra Design Museum
Vitra Design Museum
One of the key figures in 20th-century architecture, Le Corbusier had an impact that is still potent today. Whether admirers are making a pilgrimage to his intimate, evocative chapel at Ronchamps, or urban planners are reviling his monolithic...
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Towards Universality: Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl
Richard Padovan
Routledge
Routledge
There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. This one is different, however, in a number of ways. First, it does not treat them as separate subjects, but in relation to each other. While their response to...
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Le Corbusier Talks with Students
Le Corbusier
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press
First published in France in 1943 and translated for English-speaking readers in 1961, Le Corbusier Talks with Students presents advice and commentary from the master of modernism for young architects-to-be. In chapters ranging from "Disorder" to...
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