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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, otherwise known as the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, is famous for proclaiming ""the house is a machine for living in"". This neat comparison of 106 of his designs for houses edited by Tadao Ando Laboratory (with model, as well as plan and side views), each house to one spread, sets Le Corbusier's experiments in perspective. Two essays discuss the theory behind his designs and what they reveal about the man himself.

Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation is arguably the most influential Brutalist building of all time. With its human proportions, chunky pilotis and interior "streets", it redefined high-density housing by reimagining a city inside an 18-storey slab block. Completed in 1952, Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille has been blamed for launching a thousand brutalist concrete apartment blocks around the world. (including the mammoth Kanchenjunga tower in Bombay) The Unite d’ Habitation was the first of a new housing project series for Le Corbusier that focused on communal living for all the inhabitants to shop, play, live, and come together in a “vertical garden city.” Le Corbusier believed the tower block was the solution for rehousing the masses that had been displaced during the second world war, and that high rise building could be used to create spacious city homes with the same amenities as a typical street. Unlike a typical apartment block, this arrangement meant that these access corridors – known as "streets" – only needed be accommodated on every third floor. There are just five in total. Sold unframed. Printed on premium 350gsm lightly textured thick Matte Paper. Sold unframed. Designed in Brixton. Printed professionally in London. Mailed in sturdy postal tubes.

Le Corbusier is a Modernist icon whose buildings and theories have influenced structures the world over. Now you can create 10 of his most important works using the art of kirigami (cutting and folding). Each project features step-by-step instructions, cutting tips, and a template that you can remove from the book. Photos of each finished model show the final design. All you need is a craft knife, a cutting mat, and a ruler. When you are done, simply display your model and admire your handiwork. Le Corbusier Paper Models is a must for Corb fans and architectural model enthusiasts.

Le Corbusier (Switzerland 1887–1965) set up his studio in Paris in 1922, and designed houses that could be mass-produced to conform to a new machine aesthetic incorporating his trademark five points of architecture. During World War II, he started building the Unité d'habitation, houses which were a rejection of his earlier industrial forms.

Le Corbusier has been one of the dominant forces in 20th-century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. This book provides a comprehensive survey that puts Le Corbusier's career into a more balanced perspective.

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Monnier, G., Ed.: Le Corbusier Et Le Japon. Paris, 2007, 173 P. Figuras.encuadernacion Original. Nuevo.

Ce dernier tome conclut le cycle des correspondances familiales de Le Corbusier. Les années 1947-1965 sont marquées par ses plus grands succès architecturaux, mais aussi par ses chagrins intimes les plus déchirants. A l’aube de ses soixante ans, Le Corbusier engage une fois de plus son atelier dans une dynamique de projets qu’il mène parallèlement à un travail critique et théorique sur les nouveaux enjeux de l’architecture. De la mise en chantier de Chandigarh à la réalisation du Carpenter center d’Harvard, ses voyages se multiplient et donnent lieu à une correspondance nourrie où se dessinent ses premiers dialogues avec la mort – qu’accentueront la disparition de son épouse et de sa mère – mais aussi ses réflexions sur la pérennisation de son œuvre.Un document essentiel et inédit : à la fois une source dorénavant incontournable, et un portrait au jour le jour d’un des grands créateurs du XXe siècle.

Le Corbusier has been one of the dominant forces in 20th-century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. This book provides a comprehensive survey that puts Le Corbusier's career into a more balanced perspective.

Revealing the secret sources of Le Corbusier's architecture―concealed by the architect and undiscovered by scholars until now.When Charles-Édouard Jeanneret reinvented himself as Le Corbusier in Paris, he also carefully reinvented the first thirty years of his life by highlighting some events and hiding others. As he explained in a letter: "Le Corbusier is a pseudonym. Le Corbusier creates architecture recklessly. He pursues disinterested ideas; he does not wish to compromise himself... He is an entity free of the burdens of carnality." 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. Le Corbusier and the Occult thus answers the conundrum set by Reyner Banham (Birksted's predecessor at the Bartlett School of Architecture) who, fifty years ago, wrote that Le Corbusier's book Towards a New Architecture "was to prove to be one of the most influential, widely read and least understood of all the architectural writings of the twentieth century."

“Each day of my life has been dedicated in part to drawing. I have never stopped drawing and painting, seeking, where I could find them, the secrets of form.”—Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (1887–1965), is famous for transforming 20th-century architecture and urbanism. Less attention has been paid to his artistic production, although he began his career as a painter. Le Corbusier indeed studied under Charles L’Éplattenier and, together with the artist Amédée Ozenfant, founded the Purist movement in the manifesto After Cubism. Even after Le Corbusier turned to architecture, he continued to paint and draw. His thousands of drawings, rarely exhibited but meticulously stored in two watch cabinets from his family home, were particularly significant; he considered his work as a draftsman to be fundamental to his creative process.   Beautifully illustrated with more than 300 drawings that have never before been published for an English readership, this revealing book charts the evolution of Le Corbusier’s process from his youthful travels abroad to his arrival and maturation in Paris. Danièle Pauly shows how his drawings functioned within an intimate zone of private reflection and situates his work within the broader artistic and intellectual currents of Cubism, Purism, Primitivism, and Surrealism. In addition to providing a crucial new background against which to comprehend Le Corbusier’s architecture and urbanism, this important volume advocates for understanding him alongside leading modern artists including Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger.

In his numerous writings, Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career. This intriguing book examines his nascent years as a designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922-the year he changed his name from Charles Edouard Jeanneret and established his identity as Le Corbusier. The contributors to the book offer in unprecedented detail an account of Le Corbusier's formative years and the cultural, intellectual, and artistic concerns that absorbed him as a young artist in Switzerland and Paris. From 1907 to 1922 Jeanneret learned the art and craft of architecture and design, and defined his own image as an artist. The book discusses the cultural climate of his Swiss hometown, La Chaux-de-Fonds; his early mentors, friends, and clients; his educational pursuits, including his self-designed Grand Tour; and his first successes as an architect and designer. More than 350 illustrations-including architectural drawings and models, watercolors, sketches, photographs, and furniture-show the range of young Le Corbusier's work and illuminate the principal themes and issues of his formative years.

A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier – one of the twentieth century's most influential architectsA decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph Le Corbusier Le Grand is finally available in a new paperback edition. Documenting the life and work of one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design, the book presents an array of sketches, photographs, and correspondences, charting the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, an artist who continues to fascinate those inside and outside the architectural world.

"These notebooks are the most private of Le Corbusier's work, the most spontaneous, perhaps the most significant, encompassing all the others ;the work of an entire lifetime." ;André Wogenscky, President, Fondation Le CorbusierThis second volume in the series of four Le Corbusier Sketchbooks contains notes and sketches Le Corbusier made in the 1950s, a particularly rich period for him. During that time he received the commission for Chandigarh -- a mandate to create an entirely new capital to house the government of the recently created state of Punjab. The next year, he began working on projects for two villas and the Millowners' Building at Ahmedabad. All ten original notebooks record Le Corbusier's reaction to this exotic and complex culture, his interest in its vernacular architecture, and his preoccupation with environmental control through architectural design. They demonstrate how he converted new experiences into unique and very personal designs. They also record his bitter disappointment at being excluded from work on the United Nations building in New York.These sketchbooks also document the years when Le Corbusier transformed his strict, glass-and-metal International Style into aggressively sculptural forms. Here are the initial drawings for this changing sensibility: the Unité d'habitation at Marseille (1947-1952), and the revolutionary pilgrimage chapel at Ronchamp (1950-1954).

In his numerous writings, Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career. This intriguing book examines his nascent years as a designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922-the year he changed his name from Charles Edouard Jeanneret and established his identity as Le Corbusier. The contributors to the book offer in unprecedented detail an account of Le Corbusier's formative years and the cultural, intellectual, and artistic concerns that absorbed him as a young artist in Switzerland and Paris. From 1907 to 1922 Jeanneret learned the art and craft of architecture and design, and defined his own image as an artist. The book discusses the cultural climate of his Swiss hometown, La Chaux-de-Fonds; his early mentors, friends, and clients; his educational pursuits, including his self-designed Grand Tour; and his first successes as an architect and designer. More than 350 illustrations-including architectural drawings and models, watercolors, sketches, photographs, and furniture-show the range of young Le Corbusier's work and illuminate the principal themes and issues of his formative years.

Le Corbusier has been one of the dominant forces in 20th-century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. This book provides a comprehensive survey that puts Le Corbusier's career into a more balanced perspective.

Building should strengthen, architecture should stir the emotions, said Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as the famed architect Le Corbusier. Swiss photographer Eveline Perroud's Opus 1 Le Corbusier vividly documents the 2000 restoration of Le Corbusier's first project, La Maison Blanche, a home he built for his parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1912, when he was just 25 years old. With text by the architect Martin Veith and a fascinating conversation with Lucien Herve, who photographed the home for Le Corbusier when it was first built, this richly illustrated, large-format book brings the legendary architect's Modernist work to life.

Ce premier volume de la correspondance croisée entre Le Corbusier et sa famille couvre la période 1900-1925. Le Corbusier n'hésite pas à soumettre ses hypothèses, réflexions et projets aux membres de sa famille et à leur faire partager ses aspirations, ses satisfactions ou ses déconvenues. Cette correspondance permet de mieux comprendre sa formation intellectuelle et artistique, ses cheminements professionnels, ses sentiments et émotions. Comme pour tant d’autres artistes majeurs de sa génération, vie publique et vie privée sont imbriquées, au point souvent de ne faire qu’un.  En même temps qu’une carrière qui se construit, c’est une vision du monde qui se dessine. On assiste à l’élaboration de la « Synthèse des Arts », on perçoit en temps réel comment Charles-Edouard Jeanneret revêt progressivement le corset de Le Corbusier. Un document essentiel et inédit : à la fois une source dorénavant incontournable, et un portrait au jour le jour d’un des grands créateurs du XXe siècle.

Between 1945 and 1967, Le Corbusier (1887–1965) planned and built five “Unités d’habitation” in Marseille, Rezé, Berlin, Briey-en-Forêt and Firminy. Due to an acute shortage of housing after the war, he developed a new type of building―multifunctional blocks of flats that combined a large number of apartments on a small plot. These buildings included a roof landscape, as well as such urban structures as schools, cinemas, pharmacies and grocery stores. Le Corbusier’s revolutionary idea of a vertical city offered novel solutions to urban planning issues and social, aesthetic and structural challenges.The five Unités, now in various states of repair, have been photographed by photographer Arthur Zalewski (born 1971). This catalog collects Zalewski’s photographs alongside texts by curator Peter Ottmann, Arthur Zalewski and Anne König.

Ce premier volume de la correspondance croisée entre Le Corbusier et sa famille couvre la période 1900-1925. Le Corbusier n'hésite pas à soumettre ses hypothèses, réflexions et projets aux membres de sa famille et à leur faire partager ses aspirations, ses satisfactions ou ses déconvenues. Cette correspondance permet de mieux comprendre sa formation intellectuelle et artistique, ses cheminements professionnels, ses sentiments et émotions. Comme pour tant d’autres artistes majeurs de sa génération, vie publique et vie privée sont imbriquées, au point souvent de ne faire qu’un.  En même temps qu’une carrière qui se construit, c’est une vision du monde qui se dessine. On assiste à l’élaboration de la « Synthèse des Arts », on perçoit en temps réel comment Charles-Edouard Jeanneret revêt progressivement le corset de Le Corbusier. Un document essentiel et inédit : à la fois une source dorénavant incontournable, et un portrait au jour le jour d’un des grands créateurs du XXe siècle.