Le Corbusier by Nicholas Fox WeberThe 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.
Call Number: NA1053.J4 W39 2008
ISBN: 9780375410437
Publication Date: 2008-11-11
Discoveries: Le Corbusier by Jean JengerCharles-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.
Call Number: N6853.L315 J4513 1996
ISBN: 0810928809
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Le Corbusier by William J. R. CurtisLe 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.