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Book Synopsis Musee D'Horlogerie de La Chaux-de-Fonds by : Musee d'Horlogerie (La Chaux-de-Fonds)
Download or read book Musee D'Horlogerie de La Chaux-de-Fonds written by Musee d'Horlogerie (La Chaux-de-Fonds) and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Le Corbusier by : Nicholas Fox Weber
Download or read book Le Corbusier written by Nicholas Fox Weber and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture. In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism—vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru . . . Brassaï . . . Malraux (he championed Le Corbusier’s work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris) . . . Einstein . . . Matisse . . . the Steins . . . Picasso . . . Walter Gropius, and others. We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated goverments only for the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitler and Vichy rule would bring about “a marvelous transformation of society,” then renounced the doomed regime and went to work for Charles de Gaulle and his provisional government. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s fraught relationships with women (he remained celibate until the age of twenty-four and then often went to prostitutes); about his twenty-seven-year-long marriage to a woman who had no interest in architecture and forbade it being discussed at the dinner table; about his numerous love affairs during his marriage, including his shipboard romance with the twenty-three-year-old Josephine Baker, already a legend in Paris, whom he saw as a “pure and guileless soul.” She saw him as “irresistibly funny.” “What a shame you’re an architect!” she wrote. “You’d have made such a good partner!” A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived.
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Book Synopsis Le Corbusier’s Practical Aesthetic of the City by : Christoph Schnoor
Download or read book Le Corbusier’s Practical Aesthetic of the City written by Christoph Schnoor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier. This volume makes the important theoretical work available for the first time in English, offering an interpretation as to how much and in what way his ‘essai’ may have influenced his later work. Dealing with questions of aesthetic urbanism, La Construction des Villes shows Le Corbusier’s intellectual influences in the field of urbanism. Discontent that the script was not sufficiently avant-garde, he abandoned it soon after it was written in the early 20th century. It was only in the late 1970s that American historian H. Allen Brooks discovered 250 pages of the forgotten manuscript in Switzerland. The author of this book, Christoph Schnoor, later discovered another 350 handwritten pages of the original manuscript, consisting of extracts, chapters, and bibliographic notes. This splendid find enabled the re-establishment of the manuscript as Le Corbusier had abandoned it, unfinished, in the spring of 1911. This volume offers an unbiased extension of our knowledge of Le Corbusier and his work. In addition, it reminds us of the urban design innovations of the very early 20th century which can still serve as valuable lessons for a new understanding of contemporary urban design.
Book Synopsis Le Corbusier's Formative Years by : H. Allen Brooks
Download or read book Le Corbusier's Formative Years written by H. Allen Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Le Corbusier's Formative Years we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of documents that show every facet of the formative years of this influential architect. "There is much in this fine volume for anyone interested not just in architecture, but in the roots of human creativity and in the origins of the most powerful artistic current of our century. . . . This book is a life's work of scholarship. It has been well spent."—Toronto Globe and Mail
Book Synopsis Report by : National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain). Metrology Centre
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Book Synopsis Magnetiseurs Et Medecins by : Joseph Delboeuf
Download or read book Magnetiseurs Et Medecins written by Joseph Delboeuf and published by BUENOS BOOKS AMERICA LLC. This book was released on 2007* with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe, 1875: Leon, Donato et Hansen sont des magnetiseurs celebres qui pratiquent leur art sur les treteaux. Entendons par la qu'ils font des seances publiques d'hypnose. Celles-ci ont ete deja interdites a Donato en Italie, tandis qu'en France et ailleurs les medecins veulent aussi les faire interdire pour se reserver le monopole et le privilege du magnetisme. L'auteur de cet ouvrage, Joseph Delboeuf, professeur l'universite de Liege, n'aime ni les monopoles ni les privileges. Il a pris le parti de la liberte et se bat avec beaucoup de malice, d'humour et d'informations contre la clique des societes savantes et contre une revue specialisee qui semble prete a tout pour garder son lectorat. Ce livre agreable a lire est une mine d'informations sur l'histoire, les acteurs et les pratiques de l'hypnose medicale. Version imprimée disponible sur www.buenosbooks.fr
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Book Synopsis L' experience de la ville : La Chaux-de-Fonds ; the experience of a city by : Yann Amstutz
Download or read book L' experience de la ville : La Chaux-de-Fonds ; the experience of a city written by Yann Amstutz and published by Attinger SA. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report for the Year ... by : National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain)
Download or read book Report for the Year ... written by National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1905- include lists of papers published by the laboratory or communicated by members of the staff to scientific societies or to the technical journals.
Book Synopsis Museums of Horology by : Catherine Cardinal
Download or read book Museums of Horology written by Catherine Cardinal and published by Banque Paribas. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Watch and Chronometer Trials ... by : National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain)
Download or read book Watch and Chronometer Trials ... written by National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain)
Download or read book Annual Report written by National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Collecting Clocks Clock Repairs & Trademarks Index by : Thomas Hodkin
Download or read book Collecting Clocks Clock Repairs & Trademarks Index written by Thomas Hodkin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book on collecting & repairing antique clocks or timepieces written for both the amateur or experienced in mind. How to tell what's wrong, What tools to use, where to get parts and how to fit them, using hundreds of photographs and diagrams making repairs within most peoples reach, a separate section deals with sympathetic restoration of the case. The Trademarks section includes thousands of clockmakers marks from all around the world, usually stamped on the movement itself enabling the reader to accurately not only identify the maker but date and value the clock.
Book Synopsis The business of time by : Pierre-Yves Donzé
Download or read book The business of time written by Pierre-Yves Donzé and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centres such as Great Britain, France, the United States and Russia saw the industrial manufacture of watches disappear from their territory during the twentieth century. How did this situation come about? The business of time aims to answer this question by presenting the first comprehensive history of the sector. It traces the evolution and transformation of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, highlighting the conditions that enabled watch production to expand across the globe and revealing how multinational companies gradually emerged to dominate the industry.
Book Synopsis The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, May 1st to October 30th, 1893 by :
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Book Synopsis Heaven Opens by : Matthew Lewis Sutton
Download or read book Heaven Opens written by Matthew Lewis Sutton and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrienne von Speyr was one of the most important mystical theologians of the last century. However, her work has been eclipsed in many ways by her personal connection to Hans Urs von Balthasar. Heaven Opens provides one of the first comprehensive accounts of von Speyr’s theology. Matthew Lewis Sutton argues that the eternal, immanent relations of the Triune God ground the mystical theological vision of von Speyr. Here, von Speyr’s work is for the first time given an independent hearing, expositing its content, features, and connections, and assessing its contribution to contemporary Catholic theology.