
The Le Corbusier Guide
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Using the Le Corbusier Guide
Le Corbusier: A Dialectical Itinerary
Le Corbusier: A Biographical Note
Paris 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 Savoye
France
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-Rezé
La 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 Corbusier
Belgium
Maison Guiette
Germany
Houses of the Weissenhof
Uniteé d'habitation, Berlin
Italy
Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau
USA
United Nations Headquarters
Carpenter Center
Argentina
Maison Currutchet
Brazil
Ministry of Education
Tunisia
Villa Baizeau (Bézeult)
Iraq
Saddam Hussein Gymnasium
Japan
National Museum of Western Art
USSR
Centrosoyus Building
Ahmedabad, India
Millowners' Association Building
Maison de Mme Sarabhai
Villa Shodhan
N. C. Mehta Museum
Chandigarh, 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 Hand
Glossary
Notes
Maps
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 192
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Architectural Press 1987
- Published: July 1, 1983
- Imprint: Architectural Press
- eBook ISBN: 9781483135779