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In "Le Corbusier's Formative Years" we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of documents that show every facet of the formative years of this influential architect.
"There is much in this fine volume for anyone interested not just in architecture, but in the roots of human creativity and in the origins of the most powerful artistic current of our century. . . . This book is a life's work of scholarship. It has been well spent."--"Toronto Globe and Mail"
Preface | |
Color Plates | |
La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1887-1907 | |
Childhood and Early Schooling, 1887-1907 | |
L'Ecole d'Art and Earliest Designs, 1902-1907 | |
Travels and Apprenticeships, 1907-1911 | |
Travels in Northern Italy, 1907 | |
Vienna and Two Villa Designs, Winter 1907-1908 | |
Paris: Auguste Perret and the Search for an Ideal, 1908-1909 | |
Swiss Interlude: Jeanneret's Sojourn at Home | |
Germany and Jeanneret's Awakening: Peter Behrens and the Deutscher Werkbund, 1910-1911 | |
Voyage d'Orient, 1911 | |
Early Professional Career, 1912-1916 | |
The Villas Jeanneret-Perret and Favre-Jacot and Jeanneret's Role as Teacher, 1912-1914 | |
Dom-ino, La Scala, the Villa Schwob, and Furniture Design, 1914-1916 | |
Postscript The Transitional Years: Jeanneret's Move to Paris, 1917-1920 | |
Jeanneret's Publications, 1910-1919 | |
Index | |
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780226075822
ISBN-10: 0226075826
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 540
Published: 1st May 1999
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 24.0 x 21.5
x 3.18
Weight (kg): 1.49
Edition Number: 2
Edition Type: New edition