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ISBN/EAN: 9780714827902

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Autore del libro : curtis william, corbusie, lebensphilosophie, corbusier
Titolo del libro: form, curtis corbusier ideas and forms, architecture now, corbu, general idea, corbusier 1910 1960, corbusier 1910 1965

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Autore: William J R Curtis
Titolo: Le Corbusier - Ideas and Forms
Editore: Phaidon
Anno di pubblicazione: 1994-01-01
Berlin; DE
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Lingua: Inglese
35,00 € (DE)
35,00 € (AT)
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215mm x 280mm x 20mm

BC; Taschenbuch / Kunst/Architektur; Einzelne Architekten und Architekturbüros; Entdecken; Architektur; Architecture; Monographs A-Z by Architect; Auseinandersetzen

William Curtis was educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and Harvard University. Curtis has taught History of Architecture and Theories of Design at universities across England, the United States, Australia and Asia.

(1978).

won him a silver medal at the world Biennale of Architecture in 1989.

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) has been one of the dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture and a legendary pioneering figure. Many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. Yet he was also a social visionary and a writer of powerful polemics whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy.

provides a comprehensive and objective survey that exposes Le Corbusier through a more balanced perspective than ever before.

Making full use of the 'Le Corbusier Archive', the author documents individual projects in detail, while linking the imaginative activities of the artist to his philosophy of life, his urban visions, his art and the cultural predicaments of his times. He analyses Le Corbusier's phenomenal powers of abstraction and synthesis, to illustrate 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.

This intimate and meticulous study of all Le Corbusier's major buildings - from first sketches to final achievement - reveals the artist's struggle to reconcile the ideal and the practical and to give institutions and ideologies a suitable symbolic form. It shows, in turn, how this most 'modern' of architects constantly found profound inspiration in both nature and architectural tradition.