Download or read book Le Corbusier uvre compl te Volume 3 1934 1938 written by Max Bill and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close collaboration with Le Corbusier himself, and frequently reprinted ever since, the eight volumes comprise an exhaustive and singular survey of his work.
Download or read book Le Corbusier uvre compl te Volume 7 1957 1965 written by Willy Boesiger and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close collaboration with Le Corbusier himself, and frequently reprinted ever since, the eight volumes comprise an exhaustive and singular survey of his work.
Download or read book Le Corbusier uvre compl te Volume 8 1965 1969 written by Willy Boesiger and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between 1929 and 1970, in close collaboration with Le Corbusier himself, and frequently reprinted ever since, the eight volumes comprise an exhaustive and singular survey of his work.
Download or read book Le Corbusier in Detail written by Flora Samuel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original study of one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.
Download or read book Le Corbusier Le Couvent Sainte Marie de La Tourette The Monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette written by Philippe Potié and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in1952 Le Corbusier was commissioned "to dwell in the silence of men of prayer and study and to construct a church for them". The result was his impressive Convent of La Tourette, marking a significant step in modern religious architecture. Beginning with the rectangular form common to the Cirstercian monastic tradition, he created a building whose stark form contrasts beautifully with the organic elements of the interior court and the grasslands surrounding it. The church itself is a model of simplicity, the cement has been left rough and the well located sources of light evoke a feeling of silence and reflection. The order s precept of prayer, study and reflection is aptly mirrored in the architecture. Like the other Le Corbusier Guides published by Birkhäuser, this volume provides a wealth of plans, details, photographs and information on this building which today is also a conference centre.
Download or read book The Beehive Metaphor written by Juan Antonio Ramírez and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan Antonio Ramı́rez examines the complex ideological, artistic, political and architectural repercussions of apian metaphors and their influence on architecture and ecological thinking for those in the Modern Movement of architecture.
Download or read book Le Corbusier Les Quartiers Modernes Frug s The Quartiers Modernes Frug s written by Marylène Ferrand and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in 1923/24 Henry Frugès, a Bordeaux industrialist commissioned Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret with a "small workers housing estate" in Lège and a garden city in Pessac, comprising 130 to 150 houses with shops. These two housing schemes fitted neatly into the architects research on standardisation and the "machine à habiter", and provided a useful laboratory for gauging public opinion with regard to mass-production techniques in housing estates. One of the most striking features of the Cité Frugès was the use of polychromy on the exterior facades, to, in Le Corbusier's own words, "sculpt the space through the physical quality of colour - bring forward some volumes while making others recede. In short, compose with colour in the same way as we have composed with form. This is how architecture is transformed into urbanism." Historical documents and drawings make this handy-sized volume an invaluable guide for visitors and a practical introduction for all architectural enthusiasts.
Download or read book The Environmental Imagination written by Dean Hawkes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a chronologically ordered and detailed account of the developing relationship between technics and poetics in environmental design in architecture through a consideration of the work of major names in the field.
Download or read book CORBUSIER LE written by Marylène Ferrand and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1923/24, Henry Fruges - an industrialist from Bordeaux decided to commission Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret with a "small workers' housing estate" in Lege and a garden city in Pessac, comprising 130 to 150 houses and shops. The construction of these two housing schemes between 1924 and 1926 fitted neatly into the architects' research on the machine a habiter and standardisation. Lege and Pessac thus acted as a laboratory for gauging the public's opinion with regards to applying standardisation and mass-production techniques to housing estates. This quest for a standard plan also induced exploratory study on "a new plan for the city" and it is in this respect that Pessac stands unique among Le Corbusier's oeuvres.
Download or read book Le Corbusier L Unit d habitation de Marseille The Unit d Habitation in Marseilles written by Jacques Sbriglio and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the Unité in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of controversial debate, the Unité in Marseille continues to attract numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the latest addition to Birkhäuser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his Unités in Rezé-les-Nantes, Briey en Forêt, Firminy and Berlin. The author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.
Download or read book Apartment Block 24 N C and LeCorbusier s Home written by Jacques Sbriglio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The residence at 24 rue Nungesser et Coli in Paris was built in 1931-34 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. It was precisely this building which gave exemplary expression to Le Corbusier's "Cinq points de l'architecture moderne."
Download or read book Le Corbusier the Chapel at Ronchamp written by Danièle Pauly and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pilgrimage church Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp (1950–54), an icon of modern architecture, represents one of the central buildings of Le Corbusier’s late period. Like all the guides in this series, this book is indispensable both for a specialist audience and for tourists interested in architecture and modern art.
Download or read book Le Corbusier Oeuvre compl te written by Max Bill and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die acht Bände dieser außergewöhnlichen Edition, die zwischen 1929 und 1970 veröffentlicht wurde und seit dem immer wieder nachgedruckt wurde, dokumentiert die große Bandbreite des Werks von Le Corbusier. Sie dokumentieren das Werk des einflussreichsten Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts. In direkter Zusammenarbeit mit Le Corbusier in über 40 Jahren entstanden, bildet das Set eine einzigartige und erschöpfende Bestandsaufnahme seiner Gebäude, Projekte, Skizzenhefte, Manifeste, Zeichnungen und Texte, welche die Welt der Architektur nachhaltig verändert haben.
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.
Download or read book Le Corbusier s Maison Curutchet written by Alejandro Lapunzina and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of his very few built projects in the Americas, Maison Curutchet is a fascinating representation of Le Corbusier's stylistic transitional period, bridging his late 1920s purism and the maturity of his later work in India. Like Casa Malaparte, this book offers an in-depth analysis of a single building through original documents, drawings, and photographs.
Download or read book Nature and Space written by Sarah Menin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influences of two of the greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, this study offers an understanding about the diversity at the heart of modernism.
Download or read book Modern Architecture and Climate written by Daniel A. Barber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fossil-fuel powered air-conditioning became widely available—Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and dynamic architectural discussion involving design, materials, and shading systems as means of interior climate control. He looks at projects by well-known architects such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and the work of climate-focused architects such as MMM Roberto, Olgyay and Olgyay, and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of James Marston Fitch, Elizabeth Gordon, and others, he demonstrates how images and diagrams produced by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge, alongside the work of meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel type of environmental media catalyzed new ways of thinking about climate and architectural design. Extensively illustrated with archival material, Modern Architecture and Climate provides global perspectives on modern architecture and its evolving relationship with a changing climate, showcasing designs from Latin America, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. This timely and important book reconciles the cultural dynamism of architecture with the material realities of ever-increasing carbon emissions from the mechanical cooling systems of buildings and offers a historical foundation for today’s zero-carbon design.
