Le Corbusier Ideas & Forms

William J. R. Curtis

ISBN 10: 0847815560 / ISBN 13: 9780847815562

Published by Rizzoli, 1992

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Rizzoli International Publications; New York, 1986. Softcover. Signed and inscribed by author directly on front half title page. A Very Good, binding sturdy and intact, some handling/scuff marks to covers, bit of cover edge/corner wear, a nice, clean and unmarked copy in Oversize Wraps. 4to[quarto or approx. 9.5 x 12 inches], 240pp., conclusion, bibliography and notes, indexed, color and b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Le Corbusier Ideas & Forms
• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847815560
• ISBN 13: 9780847815562
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 16 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

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.

Now available for the first time in paperback, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms provides a comprehensive and objective survey that exposes Le Corbusier through a more balanced perspective than ever before.

Making full use of the 'Le Corbusier Archive', the author documents individual projects in detail, while linking the imaginative activities of the artist to his philosophy of life, his urban visions, his art and the cultural predicaments of his times. He analyses Le Corbusier's phenomenal powers of abstraction and synthesis, to illustrate how he created a potent architectural vocabulary based on a limited range of types and elements, and how he used it to generate architectural forms of compelling force.

This intimate and meticulous study of all Le Corbusier's major buildings - from first sketches to final achievement - reveals the artist's struggle to reconcile the ideal and the practical and to give institutions and ideologies a suitable symbolic form. It shows, in turn, how this most 'modern' of architects constantly found profound inspiration in both nature and architectural tradition.

About the Author

Curtis is Historian and critic who has taught at numerous universities around the world and who has contributed to many international journals. In 1999 he received a National Honor Society Gold Medal for Architecture and Allied Arts in the USA.