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Le Corbusier Redrawn: The Houses
Steven ParkLe Corbusier Redrawn presents the only collection of consistently rendered original drawings (at 1:200 scale) of all twenty-six of Le Corbusier's residential works.
The Le Corbusier Guide
Deborah GansThe Le Corbusier Guide presents the architecture of Le Corbusier.
Le Corbusier: The Poetics of Machine and Metaphor
Alexander TzonisMore than a modern architect, Le Corbusier was the architect of modern life. The present monograph discusses Le Corbusier's oeuvre in a concise global manner in relation to the revolutionary developments of the century in which it was born.
Le Corbusier and the Occult
Jan BirkstedRevealing the secret sources of Le Corbusier's architecture--concealed by the architect and undiscovered by scholars until now.
Le Corbusier:
Geoffrey Howard BakerThis 3rd edition by Geoffrey Baker rounds out the coverage of Le Corbusier's significant works.
Raumplan Versus Plan Libre: Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier
Max RisseladaAs well as featuring writings by the architects themselves, the book illustrates the evolution of the work of Loos and Le Corbusier, with detailed reference to their domestic projects, ranging from the Strasser House (1919) to the Last ...
Frontiers
More editionsOklahoma's pioneering woman progressive, who fought for social justice reform. $34.95 Hardcover • 0-8061-3563-8 - 256 [ Fanny Dunbar Corbusier Recollections of Her Army Life. 1869-1908 By Fanny Dunbar Corbusier Edited by Patricia Y.
Le Corbusier: Furniture and Interiors 1905-1965
Charlotte Perriand"...one of the most thoughtful and useful scholarly publications yet on twentieth-century furniture and interiors." The Burlington Magazine Le Corbusier, one of t
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965: The Lyricism of Architecture in the ...
Jean-Louis CohenArchitectural poetry in the machine age Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920.
Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, ...
Fanny Dunbar CorbusierWhen the Geese Come: The Journals of a Moravian Missionary, Ella Mae Ervin Romig, 1898-1905, Southwest Alaska. Phyllis Demuth Movius, ed. Fairbanks: Univers1ty of Alaska Press, 1997. Rugoff, Milton. The Beechers: An American ...
The Artistic Legacy of Le Corbusier's Machine À Habiter
Anna NovakovThis book showcases exciting new trends in Corbusian scholarship.
Toward an Architecture
Le CorbusierThis edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
Jean-Louis CohenOrganized by continent, offers a catalog of an exhibition highlighting the works of one of the pioneers of modern architecture.
Charlotte Perriand: an art of living
Mary McLeodA tribute to the nearly seventy-five- year career of the distinguished furniture and interior designer showcases both the well-known pieces she created with Le Corbusier and her independent designs, examining the trends and styles that ...
Oscar Niemeyer
Matthieu SalvaingOscar Niemeyer rose to prominence at Le Corbusier's side but swerved from the hard, straight lines of orthodox Modernism.
Le Corbusier: Inside the Machine for Living
George H. MarcusFocuses on lesser-known aspects of the Swiss-French architect's career to examine his domestic interiors and furnishings, combining archival photography and sketches to analyze such creations as the Espirit Nouveau pavilion and the Le ...
Le Corbusier and the Gras Lamp
Didier TeissonnièreHe also placed it in many of the interiors of the houses he designed: the Villa Le Lac (Switzerland), the Villa La Roche (Paris), the Guiette House (Antwerp), the Villa Savoye (Poissy), and the villa belonging to his friend Eileen Gray in ...
Towards a New Architecture
Le CorbusierPioneering manifesto by founder of "International School." Technical and aesthetic theories, views of industry, economics, relation of form to function, "mass-production split," and much more. Profusely illustrated.
Le Corbusier: Elements of a Synthesis
Stanislaus von MoosThe best recent study on the question is Marc Vellay, 'Agli estremi del mattone Nevada', inRassegna, 1985, pp. 6-17. 77 I am indebted to the late Mme. Dalsace for this detail, and also for her generous permission to visit her house. 78 InPlans ...
Le Corbusier Polychromie Architecturale: Color Keyboards ...
Arthur RüeggNow available in a revised edition, this exquisite three-volume boxed set contains chromatically perfect samples of the wallpapers, color illustrations, sketches, and slide bands, all produced by a high-quality printing process, and then ...
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide
Chris RodriguesModernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot ...
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