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Building the future: The man with a modern mission Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887–1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ideas, designs, and writings presented a whole-scale reinvention not only of individual structures, but of entire concepts of modern living.Le Corbusier's work made distinct developments over the years, from early vernacular houses in Switzerland through dazzling white, purist villas to dynamic syntheses of art and architecture such as the chapel at Ronchamp and the civic buildings in Chandigarh, India. A hallmark throughout was his ability to combine functionalist aspirations with a strong sense of expressionism, as well as a broader and empathetic understanding of urban planning, being a founding member of the Congrès international d'architecture moderne (CIAM), which championed “architecture as a social art.”This book presents some of Le Corbusier's landmark projects to introduce an architect, thinker, and modern pioneer who, even in his unrealised projects, offered discussion and inspiration for generations to come. About the Series:Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture Series features:
- an introduction to the life and work of the architect
- the major works in chronological order
- information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
- a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
- approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)
- Amazon Sales Rank: #29312 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.30" h x .50" w x 8.50" l, 1.28 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 96 pages
From the Publisher Compact overviews of the world's greatest architects TASCHEN'S Basic Architecture Series
Basic Architecture features: • Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans • Introductory essays explore the architect’s life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects • The body presents the most important works in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes, construction problems (why some projects were never executed), and resolutions • The appendix includes a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography and a map indicating the locations of the architect’s most famous buildings
About the Author In 1997, the French Minister of Culture appointed Jean-Louis Cohen to create the Cité de l'architecture―a museum, research, and exhibition center in Paris's Palais de Chaillot. Cohen's research has focused principally on 20th-century architecture and urban planning, and his studies on German and Soviet architectural cultures. The author and curator of numerous books and exhibitions on architecture, he is an internationally acknowledged authority on Le Corbusier's work.Peter Gössel runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. For TASCHEN he published monographs on Julius Shulman, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner and Richard Neutra as well as several titles in the Basic Architecture Series.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful. High Quality Introduction to Le Corbusier By Marco Antonio Abarca The German Publishing Company, Taschen has recently introduced a series of paperback monographs describing the lives and works of the Twentieth Century's greatest architects. On average, they are 100 pages long and they are filled with numerous detailed photographs of the great architect and his buildings. They start with a ten page introduction to the architects life and then continue to short chapters that highlite their greatest buildings.Whether you love or hate Le Corbusier, he was one of the great figures of the Twentieth Century. His ideas have helped shape urban life all over the world. If you want to consider yourself minimally knowledgable about modern architecture, you have to know about Le Corbusier. This book is a cheap, beautifully edited introduction to one of the leading lights of modernism. Once again, Taschen Publishing hits a home run.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Le Corbusier (Taschen Basic Architecture) By Scripto Great architects come and go. However their works remain for us to enjoy and critique. This book has allowed me to better understand Le Corbusier's style and motivation. Well written, well documented and well photographed examples of his work. Another book to add to my collection of great architects. Recommend!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Even the Beauty of Taschen Publishing Cannot Pretty This Mess Up By Dash Manchette One is probably justified in thinking that an architect’s buildings are a reflection of the architect’s true self. Certainly it was true of Le Corbusier, who hideous blights on the cityscapes of the world (thankfully, only one in America) was matched by the character of the man himself.Sounds harsh, true. But, as a start, look at the cover of this book, at the Unité d’habitation in Marseilles. Striking at first glance, one must admit. But look closer. The concrete is corroding. Imagine yourself living there. Rather cold and even cruel. No surprise that, as this book informs, an expert report predicted the development of mental illness in its future occupants.Unfortunately, that building was not a one-off. There is a reason Brutalism is so reviled as an architectural form, and one should hardly be surprised that one of its founding fathers does not hold up well under the scrutiny of time. A perusal of the Shodhan House in Ahmedabad or the Assembly in Chandigarh (both in India) is enough to bring a poor soul to tears.And although I do feel a bit uneasy bring Le Corbusier, the man, into it, the connection between him and his creations is too solid to avoid. It is not merely that the man had big plans (any person leaving this world with more people knowing his name than vice versa almost certainly has some), but rather the personality behind them and its relationship to others. As one critic has stated, Le Corbusier shared a common philosophy with totalitarians: Before me, nothing. After me, everything.Interested in urban planning, Le Corbusier sketched entire master plans for such cities as the (already beautiful) Buenos Aires, Montevideo, São Paulo, and Algiers. Nothing necessarily wrong with that . . . yet. Until you read that he was “forever trying to persuade the ‘Authorities’ to take radical steps to enable the ‘mobilization of’ land, that is, to expropriate it in order to carry out his grand plans.” In other words, use force to take away the property of others so that Le Corbusier can construct his vision instead. It comes as no surprise that he identified with the Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union and enjoyed a warm relationship with that totalitarian country. His Centrosoyus Building in Moscow, the plans of which vaguely resemble a concrete spaceship out of a cheap sci-fi movie, stands to this day as a reminder of that dreadful period.Unfortunately, Le Corbusier was as influential as his buildings were hideous (look up his plans for Paris, with a dozen-and-a-half concrete skyscraping housing projects right by the Île de la Cité, for a glimpse of how close that city came to being destroyed; at least the Nazis tried to preserve its beauty). The author is up for the task of misrepresenting the obvious. In but one amusing instance, the author simply supposes that Frank Lloyd Wright’s criticism of the Unité d’habitation was because of jealousy of Le Corbusier’s charisma. The possibility that the building itself is a concrete slab of junk, and that the aforementioned expert’s report predicting mental illness might have been on the mark, apparently did not make the cut of possibilities.Like every other book in this series by Taschen, the photographs are beautiful. Too bad about the subject matter.
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