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Le Corbusier's Hands

Author : Andre Wogenscky
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262232448
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Le Corbusier's Hands written by Andre Wogenscky and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-02-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Corbusier's assistant and fellow architect remembers his mentor in a series of concise and poetic reflections. Le Corbusier's Hands offers a poetic and personal portrait of Le Corbusier—a nuanced portrayal that is in contrast to the popular image of Le Corbusier the aloof modernist. The author knew Le Corbusier intimately for thirty years, first as his draftsman and main assistant, later as his colleague and personal friend. In this book, written in the mid-1980s, Wogenscky remembers his mentor in a series of revealing personal statements and evocative reflections unlike anything that exists in the vast literature on Le Corbusier. Wogenscky draws a portrait in swift, deft strokes—50 short chapters, one leading to the next, one memory of Le Corbusier opening into another. Appearing and reappearing like a leitmotif are Le Corbusier's hands—touching, taking, drawing, offering, closing, opening, grasping, releasing: "It was his hands that revealed him.... They spoke all his feelings, all the vibrations of his inner life that his face tried to conceal." Wogenscky writes about Le Corbusier's work, including the famous design of the chapel at Ronchamp, his ideas for high-density Unités d'Habitation linked to the center of a "Radiant City," and his "Modulor" system for defining proportions—which Wogenscky compares to a piano tuner's finding the exact relation between sounds. He remembers the day Picasso spent with Le Corbusier at the Marseilles building site—"All day long they outdid one another in a show of modesty," he observes in amazement. He adds, speaking for himself and the others present, "We were inside a double energy field." And Wogenscky writes about Le Corbusier more personally. "I have spent years trying to understand what went on in his mind and in his hand," he tells us. With Le Corbusier's Hands, Wogenscky gives us a unique record of an enigmatic genius.

The Open Hand

Author : Russell Walden
Publisher : Cambridge : MIT Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Open Hand written by Russell Walden and published by Cambridge : MIT Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen essays are by Russell Walden, Paul Turner, Patricia Sekler, Maurice Favre, Brian Taylor, Charles Jencks, Anthony Sutcliffe, Robert Fishman, Martin Purdy, John Winter, Maxwell Fry, Jane Drew, Madhu Sarin, and Stanislaus von Moos.

Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783906027654
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning written by Le Corbusier and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his death (August 27, 2015), one of Le Corbusier's most significant books becomes available again in English. We are doing a reprint of MIT Press's first edition of 1991, which again is based on the original French version of 1930, with an introduction added by the author in 1960. While the MIT Press version had black-and-white illustrations throughout, Park Books' new edition features some of Le Corbusier's drawings in color as they were in the earlier French editions. A new essay by British scholar Tim Benton, written for this new edition, contextualizes the book within Le Corbusier's oeuvre and comments on its lasting significance. An also new appendix explains specialist terms and provides background information on persons and historic events no longer necessarily known to a younger generation of architects. The Precisions, as the book is known commonly, emerged from a spontaneous and exuberant series of 10 lectures Le Corbusier gave in Buenos Aires during the fall of 1929. As he spoke, Le Corbusier improvised drawings on large sheets of paper with crayons. While similar drawings appear in other works, here all the lectures and images appear in their original context as Le Corbusier assembled them more than 80 years ago. The texts reflect a new maturity in Le Corbusier's thinking and an extreme confidence in the development of his ideas. The drawings and lectures are unique in their eloquent and concise summary of his philosophy of architecture and urban design, stating the principles that informed his work from the 1920s on. They contain some of his most compelling aphorisms, both verbal and visual, covering technique as the basis of architecture, the human scale in design, furniture, the private house, apartments and office buildings, the city, the League of Nations competition, teaching architecture, and a splendid analysis of the transformation of his own work in houses from La Roche-Jeanneret to the Villa Savoye. [Based on MIT Press's copy for their 1991 edition]

The Le Corbusier Guide

Author : Deborah Gans
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568985398
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Le Corbusier Guide written by Deborah Gans and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture may be worth a thousand words but there is no real substitute for personal experience and anyone who has visited Le Corbusier knows just how true this is. This architectural guide tells you everything you need to know to get to his buildings including maps, directions, and visitor information.

Voyage Le Corbusier

Author : Jacob Brillhart
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393733564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Voyage Le Corbusier written by Jacob Brillhart and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the master architect’s drawing campaign as a young man. Voyage Le Corbusier collects for the first time a compendium of sketchbook drawings and watercolors of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret—a young student who would go onto become the singularly influential modernist architect Le Corbusier. Between 1907 and 1911, Jeanneret traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, carrying an array of drawing supplies and documenting all that he saw: classical ruins, details of interiors, vibrant landscapes, and the people and objects that populated them. Jacob Brillhart excavates the "visual thinking" of the twentieth century's pioneer architect, reproducing a selection of 175 drawings from these early sketchbooks. For Brillhart, the images themselves are the best argument for the importance of seeing and "drawing in order to see" —not only because they show the roots of Le Corbusier's later practice but also for their relevance to the study of design today, which tends to jettison drawing instruction in favor of computer-based modeling software. Brillhart traces Jeanneret's steps, revisiting architectural history while providing a physical and intellectual road map for students, travelers, and lovers of art and architecture. Featuring dozens of never-before-published drawings and others reproduced here for the first time in full color or available only in disparate sources, Voyage Le Corbusier is at once a critical introduction to Jeanneret's budding practice and a richly detailed visual travelogue. Brillhart ably guides us through Jeanneret's itinerary and, at the same time, the development of his compositional abilities, the sharpening of his eye, and the widening of his incomparable artistic sensibility.

Le Corbusier

Author : Stanislaus von Moos
Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9064506426
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Le Corbusier written by Stanislaus von Moos and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Germany in 1968, this first comprehensive and critical survey of Le Corbusier's life and work soon became the standard text on the architect and polymath. French, Spanish, English, Japanese and Korean editions followed, but the book has now been out of print for almost two decades. In the meantime, Le Corbusier's archives in Paris have become available for research, resulting in an avalanche of scholarship. Von Moos' critical take and the basic criteria by which the subject is organized and historicized remain surprisingly pertinent in the context of this recent jungle of Corbusier studies. This new, completely revised edition is based on the 1979 version published in English by the MIT Press but offers a substantially updated body of illustrations. Each of the seven chapters is supplemented by a critical survey of recent scholarship on the respective issues. An updated edition of this acclaimed book, an essential read for students of architecture and architectural history.

The Open Hand

Author : Russell Walden
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262730624
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Open Hand written by Russell Walden and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen essays are by Russell Walden, Paul Turner, Patricia Sekler, Maurice Favre, Brian Taylor, Charles Jencks, Anthony Sutcliffe, Robert Fishman, Martin Purdy, John Winter, Maxwell Fry, Jane Drew, Madhu Sarin, and Stanislaus von Moos.

Not Always to Plan

Author : Colin Bisset
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 1743342055
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Not Always to Plan written by Colin Bisset and published by Pan. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and marriage, money and love: this family is about to find out what happens when their lives collide with the unexpected. The Dorman family lives a humdrum existence in a surfing suburb of Sydney until they are rocked by upheaval. Change is inevitable, but is it welcome? All that is certain is that each member of the family will have to confront new truths about themselves, some less comfortable than others. Set against a backdrop of Sydney's stunning beaches, the architecture of Europe and the enchanting beauty of southern India, this warmly humorous book tackles what happens when life doesn't go exactly to plan.

Le Corbusier's Secret Laboratory

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Le Corbusier's Secret Laboratory written by Le Corbusier and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (1887-1965), influenced the design, function, and construction of office and residential buildings as well as twentieth-century art and design. However, there has not yet been an extensive, precise examination of his role as an artist. For more than five decades, Le Corbusier oscillated between contradictory poles: his dedication to mechanical objects on the one hand, and his search for poetic form on the other. The mutual inspiration stemming from aesthetic versus creative took place in his "secret laboratory," the artist's studio. This is the first publication to consolidate all of the facets of his oeuvre, and it arrives at new approaches toward understanding his paintings, drawings, sculptures, tapestries, furniture, architectural sketches and plans, as well as his books and photographs. The book's five chapters cover a wide spectrum, ranging from the purist paintings and early villas to Le Corbusier's reinterpretation of values and his late works. Exhibition schedule: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, January 19-April 18, 2013

Le Corbusier Le Grand

Author : Editors of Phaidon
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714846682
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Le Corbusier Le Grand written by Editors of Phaidon and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2008-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 70 page booklet accompanying Le Corbusier : Le Grand contains a French/English glossary of architectural terms and translations of the foreign language documents.

Le Corbusier and the Occult

Author : Jan Birksted
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262026481
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Le Corbusier and the Occult written by Jan Birksted and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Le Corbusier grew up in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a city described by Karl Marx as "one unified watchmaking industry." Among the unifying social structures of La Chaux-de-Fonds was the Loge L'Amitié, the Masonic lodge with its francophone moral, social, and philosophical ideas, including the symbolic iconography of the right angle (rectitude) and the compass (exactitude). Le Corbusier would later describe these as "my guide, my choice" and as his "time-honored ideas, ingrained and deep-rooted in the intellect, like entries from a catechism." Through exhaustive research that challenges long-held beliefs, J.K. Birksted's Le Corbusier and the Occult traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives."--Publisher.

Toward an Architecture

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892368990
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Toward an Architecture written by Le Corbusier and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

Le Corbusier, History and Tradition

Author : Armando Rabaça
Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
ISBN 13 : 9892613376
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Le Corbusier, History and Tradition written by Armando Rabaça and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The view of modernism as representing an epistemological break between technology and history and tradition has long been challenged. Le Corbusier’s work has proved to be an inexhaustible reference point in this debate. This is due, on the one hand, to the legacy of nineteenth-century historicism, and on the other to his creative process of creation through destruction which, as John Summerson has noted, is comparable to the processes of avant-garde poets and painters. The contributions to this book explore particular episodes which bring to light both the operative role of the past in the creation of a new abstract synthesis, and Le Corbusier’s modernist historical consciousness. They illustrate how the past participated in the modernist creative process of abstract art, from the 1920s machine aesthetics to the late infatuation with myth. They also shed light on the extent to which the operative quality of the history was framed by a comprehensive historical vision that took the form of metanarrative, which neither the analytical studies on his architecture nor the synthetic approaches to his philosophical thinking should dismiss.

Le Corbusier, the Dishonest Architect

Author : Malcolm Millais
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152750736X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Le Corbusier, the Dishonest Architect written by Malcolm Millais and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book for architects, but for all those that have suffered, consciously and unconsciously, from modern architecture and have wondered how it came about. This was largely due to one man, an architect called Le Corbusier. For some he was a genius, but the truth is he was a sham, a fake, a charlatan whose only gift was for self-publicity. He was the most influential architect of the second half of the twentieth century; his influence overwhelmed the architectural profession on a global scale, who swallowed his publicity whole, and still hold him in awe. For the rest of the world, the mere mortals, his influence was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes, imposing a dreariness hitherto unimagined. As usual, it was the poor who suffered most as they were herded into tower-blocks. These were often grouped into estates that ringed many towns and cities, which then degenerated into high-rise slums with all the well-known attendant social problems. This book exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects. These were due to his profound dishonesty, both as a person and as an architect. His legacy was an architectural profession that believed, and still believe, they were designing buildings based on logic, functionality and honesty whereas they were doing the opposite.

Le Corbusier and the Concept of Self

Author : Simon Richards
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300095654
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Le Corbusier and the Concept of Self written by Simon Richards and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filosofische analyse van het zelfconcept van de Zwitsers-Franse architect (1887-1965), herwaardering van zijn motieven als stadsplanoloog en nieuwe inzichten met betrekking tot zijn intellectuele relaties met andere leden van de avantgarde van de twintigste eeuw.

Raumplan versus Plan Libre

Author : Stanislaus von Moos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Raumplan versus Plan Libre written by Stanislaus von Moos and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The LEGO Architect

Author : Tom Alphin
Publisher : No Starch Press
ISBN 13 : 1593276133
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The LEGO Architect written by Tom Alphin and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel through the history of architecture in The LEGO Architect. You’ll learn about styles like Art Deco, Modernism, and High-Tech, and find inspiration in galleries of LEGO models. Then take your turn building 12 models in a variety of styles. Snap together some bricks and learn architecture the fun way!