Research Catalog

Title

The artistic legacy of Le Corbusier's machine à habiter / edited by Anna Novakov and Elisabeth Schmidle ; with a preface by Ulrich Schulze.

Publication

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Novakov, Anna.
• Schmidle, Elisabeth.

Description

v, 164 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map; 24 cm

Subject

• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 > Influence
• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
• Le Corbusier 1887-1965
• Le Corbusier
• Le Corbusier > Architekturtheorie > Rezeption > Aufsatzsammlung
• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1900-2000
• Architecture and society > History > 20th century
• Political science > Philosophy > History > 20th century
• Architecture and society
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Political science > Philosophy
• Architektur
• Gesellschaft
• Rezeption
• Architektur
• Hausbau
• Wohnen
• Maschine
• Architekturtheorie
• Rezeption
• Architekturtheorie > Le Corbusier > Rezeption > Aufsatzsammlung

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-162) and index.

Contents

The architecture of the well-serviced environment / Hadas Steiner -- Towards a sustainable fusion : car, house and city / Alex Wall -- Moveable immovables : the interplay between architecture and automotive design / Elisabeth Schmidle -- Text messaging : Eileen Gray's Ville-maison / Anna Novakov -- Inhabiting ideology : Quadrante and the paradigm of the machine à habiter in Fascist Italy / Maria Elena Versari -- Una macchina per abitare? Modern Italian housing between Gio Ponti's Casa all'italiana and Le Corbusier's Machine à habiter / Flavia Marcello -- Une machine à émouvoir l'homme : art in the purist home / Christopher Pearson -- Venice hospital : a study of its urban underpinnings / Mahnaz Shah.

ISBN

• 9780773451506
• 0773451501

LCCN

• 2008013512
• 99820850206

OCLC

• ocn213400946
• 213400946
• SCSB-14007993

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library