Le Corbusier

Architect and Visionary

By: Kenneth Frampton

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Paperback | 17 June 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Le Corbusier is probably the most famous and certainly the most controversial architect of the twentieth century. His impact on the urban fabric around us and on the way we live has been gigantic because of the richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themeshis perennial drive toward new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unite d'Habitation at Marseille; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and historian Kenneth Frampton reexamines all these facets of his artistic and philosophical worldview in the light of recent discoveries, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the twenty-first century. 200 b/w illustrations.

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Introduction	p. 6
The Formative Years 1887-1916	p. 8
Towards a New Architecture 1917-1927	p. 20
The City of Tomorrow 1910-1933	p. 46
Decorative Art Today 1925-1937	p. 58
A House, A Palace 1923-1929	p. 70
World Architect: Czechoslovakia, Russia, Brazil, North Africa, North America, France and Switzerland 1928-1936	p. 88
The Politics of the Unpolitical: Le Corbusier and Saint-Simonian Technocracy 1923-1947	p. 116
From Intermediate Technology to Regional Urbanization 1929-1946	p. 130
Towards a New Habitat 1922-1960	p. 150
The Sacred and the Profane: Le Corbusier and Spiritual Form 1948-1965	p. 167
Passage to India 1950-1965	p. 184
Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit	p. 200
Fin d'un Monde: The Last Works 1939-1965	p. 214
Notes	p. 230
Bibliography	p. 234
Acknowledgments	p. 235
Index	p. 236
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