Le Corbusier: ideas and forms
The author making full use of the Le Corbusier archive, documents individual projets in detail, whilst linking the imaginative activities of the artist to his philosophy of life, to his urban visions, to his art and to the cultural predicaments of his times. He analyses Le Corbusier's phenomenal powers of abstraction and synthesis, showing how he created a potent architectural vocabulary based on a limited range of types and elements, and how he used it to generate architectural forms of compel…
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- Full title :Le Corbusier : ideas and forms / William J.R. Curtis.
Summary
The author making full use of the Le Corbusier archive, documents individual projets in detail, whilst linking the imaginative activities of the artist to his philosophy of life, to his urban visions, to his art and to the cultural predicaments of his times. He analyses Le Corbusier's phenomenal powers of abstraction and synthesis, showing how he created a potent architectural vocabulary based on a limited range of types and elements, and how he used it to generate architectural forms of compelling force.
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- Publication Date:1999, ©1986.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Phaidon
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999, ©1986.
The Physical Object
- Description:240 pages : : illustrations (some color), plans
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0714827908, 9780714827902
- oclc:ocn436093582
- LC Classification:NA1053.J4
- Dewey Decimal:720/.92
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