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Le Corbusier by Harold Allen Brooks (Editor) Overview of the life and work of Le Corbusier.

Le Corbusier by Nicholas Fox Weber The biography of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded as a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings--a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris.

Discoveries: Le Corbusier by Jean Jenger Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a pioneer of modern architecture. He focused his seemingly unlimited creative energy on diverse media and fields of endeavor: architecture, city planning, drawing, painting, sculpture, and tapestry design. Visit his revolutionary buildings and read about the controversies stirred up by this maverick's provocative works and pronouncements.

Le Corbusier by William J. R. Curtis Le Corbusier (1887-1965) has been one of the dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture and a legendary pioneering figure. Many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. Yet he was also a social visionary and a writer of powerful polemics whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy. Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms provides a comprehensive and objective survey that exposes Le Corbusier through a more balanced perspective than ever before.