Le Corbusier Guide
Published on 1. January 2014
193 pages
978-1-4831-3577-9 (ISBN)
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The Le Corbusier Guide presents the architecture of Le Corbusier. The focus is on Paris given that it is his adopted city and the place where he came of age. Within its environs is a representative sample of his built work. It contains most of his purist houses, and an early foray away from the crisp surfaces of Purism. This itinerary follows the outlines of Le Corbusier's life's work. Beginning at his birthplace in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the route continues to Paris, to the perimeter of France, and finally to the international scene architects, architecture, Paris. Also presented are Le Corbusier's work in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, United States, Argentina, Brazil, Tunisia, Iraq, Japan, USSR, and India. The itinerary includes not only the buildings but also the process of getting from one to the next. On the ""open road"" it is a pleasure to remember Le Corbusier's own joy of self-propulsion in the automobile, efficiency, and speed in the train; and the thrill of flight as he experienced it with the poet of flight, Antoine de Saint Exupery. All these mimetic pleasures are ancillary to the experience of the buildings in situ in their complex relationship to local landscape, national spirit, and international vision.
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Deborah Gans
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AcknowledgmentsUsing the Le Corbusier GuideLe Corbusier: A Dialectical ItineraryLe Corbusier: A Biographical NoteParis and environs Maison Planex (Planeix) Asile Flottant Cite de Refuge (l'Armée du Salut) Atelier Ozenfant Pavillon Suisse Pavillon du Brésil Maisons la Roche-Jeanneret Apartment House at Porte Molitor Maisons Lipchitz-Miestchaninoff Maison Ternisien Maison Cook Maisons Jaoul Villa Besnus (Ker-ka-ré) Villa Stein/de Monzie Maison de Weekend Villa SavoyeFrance Unité d'habitation, Briey-en-Forêt Manufacture Duval Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut Écluse de Kembs-Niffer Couvent de La Tourette Firminy-Vert Unité d'habitation, Marseille Villa de Mandrot Le Petit Cabanon (Etoile de Mer) Grave of Le Corbusier Quartier Moderne Frugès Villa le Sextant Unité d'habitation Nantes-RezéLa Chaux-de-Fonds & Switzerland Villa Fallet Villa Stotzer Villa Jacquemet Villa Jeanneret Villa Favre-Jacot Cinéma Scala Villa Schwob (Villa Turque) La Petite Maison Immeuble Clarté Centre Le CorbusierBelgium Maison GuietteGermany Houses of the Weissenhof Uniteé d'habitation, BerlinItaly Pavillon de l'Esprit NouveauUSA United Nations Headquarters Carpenter CenterArgentina Maison CurrutchetBrazil Ministry of EducationTunisia Villa Baizeau (Bézeult)Iraq Saddam Hussein GymnasiumJapan National Museum of Western ArtUSSR Centrosoyus BuildingAhmedabad, India Millowners' Association Building Maison de Mme Sarabhai Villa Shodhan N. C. Mehta MuseumChandigarh, India Palace of Justice (High Court) Secretariat Assembly Building (Parliament) The Yacht Club (Lake Club) Museum and Art Gallery College of Art College of Architecture Monument of the Open HandGlossaryNotesMapsIndex
