Le Corbusier / Volume I. Formative years, 1887-1933 edited by Graham Livesey and Antony Moulis

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TextSeries: Critical concepts in architecturePublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, c2018Description: xxxiv, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9781138861015 (set)
9781138861039 (vol. 1)

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Le Corbusier (Routledge (Firm)

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720.92 23

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NA1053.J4 L45 2017

Contents:

Volume I. Formative years, 1887-1933. PART 1. Education, Apprenticeship and Early Travels. 1. Le Corbusier’s Formative Years at La Chaux-de-Fonds / H. Allen Brooks -- 2. Home-Ties—Adrift Abroad: The Oriental Journey of CH. Jeanneret / Giuliano Gresleri-- 3. Munich to Berlin: The Urban Space of German Cities / Christoph Schnoor -- 4. The Parthenon / Le Corbusier -- PART 2. Early Projects and Themes. 5. From Feeling to Reason: Jeanneret and Regionalism / Jacques Grubler -- 6. The Early Villas in La Chaux-de-Fonds by Charles-Edouard Jeannneret-Gris / Geoffrey Baker -- 7. Le Corbusier, Fourier, and the Monastery of Ema / Peter Serenyi -- 8. Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign / Peter Eisenman -- PART 3. Transitional Years: Amedée Ozenfant, Purism, L’Esprit Nouveau. 9. The Transitional Years: Jeanneret’s Move to Paris 1917-1920 / H. Allen Brooks -- 10. Purism / Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant -- 11. A Method for the Arts of Today: Purism, Après le Cubisme, and L’Esprit Nouveau / M. Christine Boyer -- 12. Ars Longa / Kenneth E. Silver -- PART 4. Vers une architecture, 1923. 13. ‘Argument’, ‘Three Reminders To Architects: Volume’, and ‘Eyes That Do Not See: Liners’ / Le Corbusier -- 14. Introduction / Frederick Etchells -- 15. The Mechanical Analogy / Peter Collins -- PART 5. Purist Villas. 16. A paradoxical avant-garde: Le Corbusier’s villas of the 1920s / Richard A. Etlin -- 17. Antiquity and Modernity in the La Roche-Jeanneret Houses of 1923 / Kurt W. Forster -- 18. Le Corbusier’s Conception at Pessac / Philippe Boudon -- 19. The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa: Palladio and Le Corbusier Compared / Colin Rowe -- 20. Villa Savoye and the Architects’ Practice / Tim Benton -- 21. ’Les Heures Claires’ / Richard Meier -- PART 6. Themes: Five Points of a New Architecture, the Architectural Promenade. 22. Five points towards a new architecture / Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret -- 23. Les Cinqs Points d’une Architecture Nouvelle / Werner Oechslin -- 24. The Pros and Cons of the Horizontal Window: The Perret-Le Corbusier Controversy / Bruno Reichlin -- 25. Elements of the Architectural Promenade / Flora Samuel -- PART 7. Urbanisme, 1925. 26. A Contemporary City / Le Corbusier -- PART 8. Urban Projects and CIAM, 1920-1933. 27. A City for Three Million People’, and ‘The Voisin Plan‘ / Norma Evenson -- 28. The City of Dialectic / Kenneth Frampton -- 29. The International Congresses for Modern Architecture (CIAM) and the Formation of Contemporary Architecture / Sigfried Giedion. Volume II. World architect, 1927-1946. PART 1. L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui (1925). 30. Type-needs. Type-furniture / Le Corbusier -- PART 2. Furniture and Interiors. 31. Le Corbusier: Furniture and the Interior / Charlotte Benton -- PART 3. The Role of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Colour. 32. The Architect as Artist / Christopher Green -- 33. Le Corbusier: Sketches and Drawings / Geoffrey Baker -- 34. Le Corbusier: A Marriage of Contours’ / Richard Joseph Ingersoll -- 35. Color in Architecture / Fernand Leger -- PART 4. Photography. 36. Le Corbusier and Photography / Beatriz Colomina -- 37. Deep Space/Shallow Space / Thomas L. Schumacher -- PART 5. League of Nations and Mundaneum. 38. The League of Nations Competition, 1927: Contemporary Architecture Comes to the Front / Sigfried Giedion -- 39. The Mundaneum Plan / Giuliano Gresleri -- PART 6. International Encounters: U.S.S.R., Latin America, North Africa and America. 40. Le Corbusier and the Mystique of the U.S.S.R. / Jean-Louis Cohen -- 41. Letter to Le Corbusier / Moses Ginzburg -- 42. Le Corbusier in South America: Reinventing the South American City / Fernando Pérez Oyarzun -- 43. Le Corbusier and Algiers / Mary McLeod -- 44. The "Call" to American Industrialists / Mardges Bacon -- 45. The Skyscrapers Of New York Are Too Small! / Le Corbusier -- PART 7. Housing Projects. 46. Technology, Society, and Social Control in Le Corbusier’s Cité de Refuge, Paris, 1933 / Brian Brace Taylor -- 47. Why Revisit ‘Le Pavillon Suisse’? / Shadrach Woods -- 48. Le Corbusier’s Penthouse in Paris, 24 Rue Nungesser-et-Coli / Peter Carl -- 49. The Immeuble Clarté / Christian Sumi -- PART 8. Regionalism and Vernacular Forms, 1929-1935. 50. Thirteen / Peter Blake -- 51. Petite Maison de Weekend (Villa Félix), La Celle-St-Cloud / Tim Benton -- PART 9. The war years, 1936-1946. 52. Le Corbusier and the Paris Exposition of 1937: The Temps Nouvea Pavilion / Danilo Udovicki-Selb -- 53. Forms and techniques: Le Corbusier, the spiral plan and diagram architecture / Antony Moulis -- 54. The Politics of the Unpolitical: Le Corbusier and Saint-Simonian Technocracy 1923-1947 / Kenneth Frampton -- 55. Vichy / Robert Fishman. Volume III. Post-war reconstruction, 1946-1965. PART 1. Ideas and Projects. 56. Le Corbusier and the Reconstruction of Saint-Dié: The debate over Modernism in France, 1944-46 / Peter Clericuzio -- 57. The Construction of Dwellings / Le Corbusier -- 58. Villa, Townhouse’, and ‘Unité: the Utopian Spectrum / Ernesto N. Rogers -- 59. Modulor / Peter Collins -- 60. The Marseille ‘Folly’ / Lewis Mumford -- PART 2. Brutalism. 61. Les Maisons Jaoul, Neuilly / Reyner Banham -- 62. Pisé, concrete with rubble, exposed brick / Roberto Gargiani and Anna Rosellini -- 63. Troubles in theory V: the brutalist moment(s) / Anthony Vidler -- PART 3. Religious Buildings. 64. Ronchamp. Le Corbusier’s Chapel and the Crisis of Rationalism / James Stirling -- 65. Dominican Monastery of La Tourette, Eveux-sur-Arbresle, Lyons / Colin Rowe -- 66. La Tourette and Le Thoronet / Peter Buchanan -- 67. Grandeur is the Intention / Anthony Eardley -- PART 4. Art practice: poetry and painting. 68.Ineffable Space / Le Corbusier -- 69. ‘Alchemical and mythical themes in the poem of the Right Angle, 1945-65 / Richard Allan Moore -- PART 5. India, 1950-1965. 70. Chandigarh: A New Town for India / Maxwell Fry -- 71. The Assembly: Chandigarh / Charles Correa -- 72. Le Corbusier: The Master Plan / Norma Evenson -- 73. Observations on Chandigarh / Allan B. Jacobs -- 74. Timeless but of its Time: Le Corbusier's Architecture in India / Peter Serenyi -- 75. With Open Hands: Architectural symbolism and the vagaries of political claims / Vikramaditya Prakash -- 76. Socio-Economic Change and the Poor / Madhu Sarin -- PART 6. Last Works/New Beginnings, 1948-1965. 77. Le Corbusier's Curutchet House in La Plata / Alfonso Corona Martínez -- 78. The Electronic Pavilion Reconsidered / Marc Treib -- 79. The Carpenter Center in Le Corbusier’s oeuvre: An Assessment / Eduard R. Sekler and William J.R. Curtis -- 80. extual Heresies: Le Corbusier, Palais des Congrès-Strasbourg, 1962-64 / Peter Eisenman -- 81. Formal and Functional Interactions: A Study of Two Late Works by Le Corbusier / Alan Colquhoun -- 82. The Exhibition Pavilions for Heidi Weber and Theodor Ahrenberg / Catherine Dumont d’Ayot. Volume IV. Legacy and impact 1960-2015. PART 1. Processes and Intentions. 83. Poetry and Aesthetics / Françoise Choay -- 84. Le Corbusier and the Image of Man / José Luis Sert -- 85. Working with Le Corbusier / Jerzy Soltan -- 86. Studio as Laboratory / Judi Loach -- PART 2. Appreciations. 87. Le Corbusier / Oscar Niemeyer -- 88. The Achievement of Le Corbusier / Sibyl Moholy-Nagy -- 89. The Last Formgiver / Reyner Banham -- PART 3.Colleagues and Collaborations. 90. Corb as structural rationalist: the formative influence of engineer Max DuBois / Joyce Lowman -- 91. Charlotte Perriand: Here First Decade as a Designer / Mary McLeod -- 92. Le Corbusier and the Pioneering Age / Charlotte Periand -- 93. Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh: architect, designer, educator / Maristella Casciato -- 94. Le Corbusier: The Acrobat of Architecture / Balkrishna Doshi -- 95. Le Corbusier as I Knew Him / Jane Drew -- 96. Concerning Le Corbusier / Iannis Xenakis -- 97. ‘History’ and ‘Modulor‘ / André Wogenscky -- PART 4. International reception. 98. Le Corbusier’s British Reputation / Adrian Forty -- 99. Le Corbusier and the Origins of Modern Architecture in South Africa / Gilbert Herbert -- PART 5. Reassessments. 100. Charles Jeanneret-Le Corbusier / Charles Jencks -- 101. Architecture and Engineering: Le Corbusier and the Paradox of Reason / Alan Colquhoun -- 102. Le Corbusier, Orientalism and Colonialism / Zeynep Celik -- 103. Battle lines: E.1027 / Beatriz Colomina -- 104. The Vernacular, Modernism and Le Corbusier / Francesco Passanti -- 105. LC in Istanbul (1911): The Oriel Principle (Cikma Construction) / Adolf Max Vogt -- 106. The Image of the Body in the Oeuvre of Le Corbusier / Daniel Naegele -- 107. The Modulor / Simon Richards -- 108. Dancing in the Dark: The Construction of Blackness in Le Corbusier’s Radiant City / Mabel O. Wilson -- 109. Autobiographical interiors: Le Corbusier at home / Arthur Rüegg -- 110. Adjusting to Le Corbusier at the Maisons Jaoul in Neuilly / Caroline Maniaque -- 111. Elements of a Synthesis / Stanislaus von Moos -- 112. ‘Beware Printer!’ Photography and the printed page / Catherine de Smet -- 113. Convex Space: Le Corbusier and the Free Plan / Jacques Lucan -- 114. In the Cause of Landscape / Jean-Louis Cohen -- PART 6. Historiographical overview. 115. From impact to legacy: Interpreting critical writing and research on Le Corbusier from the 1920s to the present / Graham Livesey and Antony Moulis, "From impact to legacy: Interpreting critical writing and research on Le Corbusier from the 1920s to the present.

Summary: This four-volume collection of writings on the career and legacy of Le Corbusier traces the various periods of his life from his early training to his final projects. The writings, by Le Corbusier and leading scholars, also explore important themes and specific buildings. The final volume includes articles, some critical of his ideas, which examine his legacy and impact.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume I. Formative years, 1887-1933. PART 1. Education, Apprenticeship and Early Travels. 1. Le Corbusier’s Formative Years at La Chaux-de-Fonds / H. Allen Brooks --
2. Home-Ties—Adrift Abroad: The Oriental Journey of CH. Jeanneret / Giuliano Gresleri--
3. Munich to Berlin: The Urban Space of German Cities / Christoph Schnoor --
4. The Parthenon / Le Corbusier --
PART 2. Early Projects and Themes. 5. From Feeling to Reason: Jeanneret and Regionalism / Jacques Grubler --
6. The Early Villas in La Chaux-de-Fonds by Charles-Edouard Jeannneret-Gris / Geoffrey Baker --
7. Le Corbusier, Fourier, and the Monastery of Ema / Peter Serenyi --
8. Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign / Peter Eisenman --
PART 3. Transitional Years: Amedée Ozenfant, Purism, L’Esprit Nouveau. 9. The Transitional Years: Jeanneret’s Move to Paris 1917-1920 / H. Allen Brooks --
10. Purism / Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant --
11. A Method for the Arts of Today: Purism, Après le Cubisme, and L’Esprit Nouveau / M. Christine Boyer --
12. Ars Longa / Kenneth E. Silver --
PART 4. Vers une architecture, 1923. 13. ‘Argument’, ‘Three Reminders To Architects: Volume’, and ‘Eyes That Do Not See: Liners’ / Le Corbusier --
14. Introduction / Frederick Etchells --
15. The Mechanical Analogy / Peter Collins --
PART 5. Purist Villas. 16. A paradoxical avant-garde: Le Corbusier’s villas of the 1920s / Richard A. Etlin --
17. Antiquity and Modernity in the La Roche-Jeanneret Houses of 1923 / Kurt W. Forster --
18. Le Corbusier’s Conception at Pessac / Philippe Boudon --
19. The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa: Palladio and Le Corbusier Compared / Colin Rowe --
20. Villa Savoye and the Architects’ Practice / Tim Benton --
21. ’Les Heures Claires’ / Richard Meier --
PART 6. Themes: Five Points of a New Architecture, the Architectural Promenade. 22. Five points towards a new architecture / Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret --
23. Les Cinqs Points d’une Architecture Nouvelle / Werner Oechslin --
24. The Pros and Cons of the Horizontal Window: The Perret-Le Corbusier Controversy / Bruno Reichlin --
25. Elements of the Architectural Promenade / Flora Samuel --
PART 7. Urbanisme, 1925. 26. A Contemporary City / Le Corbusier --
PART 8. Urban Projects and CIAM, 1920-1933. 27. A City for Three Million People’, and ‘The Voisin Plan‘ / Norma Evenson --
28. The City of Dialectic / Kenneth Frampton --
29. The International Congresses for Modern Architecture (CIAM) and the Formation of Contemporary Architecture / Sigfried Giedion. Volume II. World architect, 1927-1946. PART 1. L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui (1925). 30. Type-needs. Type-furniture / Le Corbusier --
PART 2. Furniture and Interiors. 31. Le Corbusier: Furniture and the Interior / Charlotte Benton --
PART 3. The Role of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Colour. 32. The Architect as Artist / Christopher Green --
33. Le Corbusier: Sketches and Drawings / Geoffrey Baker --
34. Le Corbusier: A Marriage of Contours’ / Richard Joseph Ingersoll --
35. Color in Architecture / Fernand Leger --
PART 4. Photography. 36. Le Corbusier and Photography / Beatriz Colomina --
37. Deep Space/Shallow Space / Thomas L. Schumacher --
PART 5. League of Nations and Mundaneum. 38. The League of Nations Competition, 1927: Contemporary Architecture Comes to the Front / Sigfried Giedion --
39. The Mundaneum Plan / Giuliano Gresleri --
PART 6. International Encounters: U.S.S.R., Latin America, North Africa and America. 40. Le Corbusier and the Mystique of the U.S.S.R. / Jean-Louis Cohen --
41. Letter to Le Corbusier / Moses Ginzburg --
42. Le Corbusier in South America: Reinventing the South American City / Fernando Pérez Oyarzun --
43. Le Corbusier and Algiers / Mary McLeod --
44. The "Call" to American Industrialists / Mardges Bacon --
45. The Skyscrapers Of New York Are Too Small! / Le Corbusier --
PART 7. Housing Projects. 46. Technology, Society, and Social Control in Le Corbusier’s Cité de Refuge, Paris, 1933 / Brian Brace Taylor --
47. Why Revisit ‘Le Pavillon Suisse’? / Shadrach Woods --
48. Le Corbusier’s Penthouse in Paris, 24 Rue Nungesser-et-Coli / Peter Carl --
49. The Immeuble Clarté / Christian Sumi --
PART 8. Regionalism and Vernacular Forms, 1929-1935. 50. Thirteen / Peter Blake --
51. Petite Maison de Weekend (Villa Félix), La Celle-St-Cloud / Tim Benton --
PART 9. The war years, 1936-1946. 52. Le Corbusier and the Paris Exposition of 1937: The Temps Nouvea Pavilion / Danilo Udovicki-Selb --
53. Forms and techniques: Le Corbusier, the spiral plan and diagram architecture / Antony Moulis --
54. The Politics of the Unpolitical: Le Corbusier and Saint-Simonian Technocracy 1923-1947 / Kenneth Frampton --
55. Vichy / Robert Fishman. Volume III. Post-war reconstruction, 1946-1965. PART 1. Ideas and Projects. 56. Le Corbusier and the Reconstruction of Saint-Dié: The debate over Modernism in France, 1944-46 / Peter Clericuzio --
57. The Construction of Dwellings / Le Corbusier --
58. Villa, Townhouse’, and ‘Unité: the Utopian Spectrum / Ernesto N. Rogers --
59. Modulor / Peter Collins --
60. The Marseille ‘Folly’ / Lewis Mumford --
PART 2. Brutalism. 61. Les Maisons Jaoul, Neuilly / Reyner Banham --
62. Pisé, concrete with rubble, exposed brick / Roberto Gargiani and Anna Rosellini --
63. Troubles in theory V: the brutalist moment(s) / Anthony Vidler --
PART 3. Religious Buildings. 64. Ronchamp. Le Corbusier’s Chapel and the Crisis of Rationalism / James Stirling --
65. Dominican Monastery of La Tourette, Eveux-sur-Arbresle, Lyons / Colin Rowe --
66. La Tourette and Le Thoronet / Peter Buchanan --
67. Grandeur is the Intention / Anthony Eardley --
PART 4. Art practice: poetry and painting. 68.Ineffable Space / Le Corbusier --
69. ‘Alchemical and mythical themes in the poem of the Right Angle, 1945-65 / Richard Allan Moore --
PART 5. India, 1950-1965. 70. Chandigarh: A New Town for India / Maxwell Fry --
71. The Assembly: Chandigarh / Charles Correa --
72. Le Corbusier: The Master Plan / Norma Evenson --
73. Observations on Chandigarh / Allan B. Jacobs --
74. Timeless but of its Time: Le Corbusier's Architecture in India / Peter Serenyi --
75. With Open Hands: Architectural symbolism and the vagaries of political claims / Vikramaditya Prakash --
76. Socio-Economic Change and the Poor / Madhu Sarin --
PART 6. Last Works/New Beginnings, 1948-1965. 77. Le Corbusier's Curutchet House in La Plata / Alfonso Corona Martínez --
78. The Electronic Pavilion Reconsidered / Marc Treib --
79. The Carpenter Center in Le Corbusier’s oeuvre: An Assessment / Eduard R. Sekler and William J.R. Curtis --
80. extual Heresies: Le Corbusier, Palais des Congrès-Strasbourg, 1962-64 / Peter Eisenman --
81. Formal and Functional Interactions: A Study of Two Late Works by Le Corbusier / Alan Colquhoun --
82. The Exhibition Pavilions for Heidi Weber and Theodor Ahrenberg / Catherine Dumont d’Ayot. Volume IV. Legacy and impact 1960-2015. PART 1. Processes and Intentions. 83. Poetry and Aesthetics / Françoise Choay --
84. Le Corbusier and the Image of Man / José Luis Sert --
85. Working with Le Corbusier / Jerzy Soltan --
86. Studio as Laboratory / Judi Loach --
PART 2. Appreciations. 87. Le Corbusier / Oscar Niemeyer --
88. The Achievement of Le Corbusier / Sibyl Moholy-Nagy --
89. The Last Formgiver / Reyner Banham --
PART 3.Colleagues and Collaborations. 90. Corb as structural rationalist: the formative influence of engineer Max DuBois / Joyce Lowman --
91. Charlotte Perriand: Here First Decade as a Designer / Mary McLeod --
92. Le Corbusier and the Pioneering Age / Charlotte Periand --
93. Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh: architect, designer, educator / Maristella Casciato --
94. Le Corbusier: The Acrobat of Architecture / Balkrishna Doshi --
95. Le Corbusier as I Knew Him / Jane Drew --
96. Concerning Le Corbusier / Iannis Xenakis --
97. ‘History’ and ‘Modulor‘ / André Wogenscky --
PART 4. International reception. 98. Le Corbusier’s British Reputation / Adrian Forty --
99. Le Corbusier and the Origins of Modern Architecture in South Africa / Gilbert Herbert --
PART 5. Reassessments. 100. Charles Jeanneret-Le Corbusier / Charles Jencks --
101. Architecture and Engineering: Le Corbusier and the Paradox of Reason / Alan Colquhoun --
102. Le Corbusier, Orientalism and Colonialism / Zeynep Celik --
103. Battle lines: E.1027 / Beatriz Colomina --
104. The Vernacular, Modernism and Le Corbusier / Francesco Passanti --
105. LC in Istanbul (1911): The Oriel Principle (Cikma Construction) / Adolf Max Vogt --
106. The Image of the Body in the Oeuvre of Le Corbusier / Daniel Naegele --
107. The Modulor / Simon Richards --
108. Dancing in the Dark: The Construction of Blackness in Le Corbusier’s Radiant City / Mabel O. Wilson --
109. Autobiographical interiors: Le Corbusier at home / Arthur Rüegg --
110. Adjusting to Le Corbusier at the Maisons Jaoul in Neuilly / Caroline Maniaque --
111. Elements of a Synthesis / Stanislaus von Moos --
112. ‘Beware Printer!’ Photography and the printed page / Catherine de Smet --
113. Convex Space: Le Corbusier and the Free Plan / Jacques Lucan --
114. In the Cause of Landscape / Jean-Louis Cohen --
PART 6. Historiographical overview. 115. From impact to legacy: Interpreting critical writing and research on Le Corbusier from the 1920s to the present / Graham Livesey and Antony Moulis, "From impact to legacy: Interpreting critical writing and research on Le Corbusier from the 1920s to the present.

This four-volume collection of writings on the career and legacy of Le Corbusier traces the various periods of his life from his early training to his final projects. The writings, by Le Corbusier and leading scholars, also explore important themes and specific buildings. The final volume includes articles, some critical of his ideas, which examine his legacy and impact.

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