Research Catalog

Title

Le Corbusier : ideas and forms / William J.R. Curtis.

Author

Curtis, William J. R.

Publication

• London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press Limited, 2015.
• ©2015

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

511 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) has been one of the dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. But he was also a social visionary and a writer of polemics, whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy. Now fully updated with new scholarship and contemporary research, 'Le Corbusier: Ideas and forms' provides a comprehensive and unbiased survey that puts Le Corbusier in a balanced perspective and analyses his work from a contemporary context.

Subject

• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 > Criticism and interpretation
• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 > Themes, motives

Note

• Previous edition: New York: Rizzoli, 1986.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-503) and index.

Contents

Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction: Notes to Invention -- [Part] 1. The formative years of Charles Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1922 -- II. Architectural ideals and social realities, 1922-1944 -- III. The ancient sense: late works, 1945-1965 -- IV. Principals and transformations.

Call Number

JQG 15-340

ISBN

• 9780714868943
• 0714868949

OCLC

909304657

Author

Curtis, William J. R., author.

Title

Le Corbusier : ideas and forms / William J.R. Curtis.

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press Limited, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-503) and index.

Research Call Number

JQG 15-340