Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Soon after leaving La Chaux-de-Fonds for Paris, Jeanneret, in association with the Purist painter Amedee Ozenfant, gained fame in the 1920s under the nom de plume Le Corbusier, publishing the journal L'Esprit Nouveau and four seminal Modernist tracts: Towards a New Architecture, The City of Tomorrow, The Decorative Art of Today, and La Peinture Moderne (Modern Painting).
Author : Ronald Rael
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568987675
"The ground we walk on and grow crops in also just happens to be the most widely used building material on the planet. Civilizations throughout time have used it to create stable warm low-impact structures. The world's first skyscrapers were built of mud brick. Paul Revere Chairman Mao and Ronald Reagan all lived in earth houses at various points in their lives and several of the buildings housing Donald Judd's priceless collection at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas are made of mud brick." "While the vast legacy of traditional and vernacular earthen construction has been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the contemporary tradition of earth architecture. Author Ronald Rael founder of Eartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth mud brick compressed earth cob and several other interesting techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486315649
Pioneering manifesto by founder of "International School." Technical and aesthetic theories, views of industry, economics, relation of form to function, "mass-production split," and much more. Profusely illustrated.
Author : Flora Samuel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2004-04-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0470847476
This is a revealing book which, for the first time, investigates the central influence of feminism in the work of Le Corbusier; one of the most important and revered architects of all time. The text covers Le Corbusier’s upbringing and training and sets this in the context of the cultural atmosphere of his time, covering issues of gender and religion. It reveals aspects of his private life such as personal relationships, which have barely been explored before as no biography currently exists. Furthermore, the author reveals, for the first time in print, a previously undiscovered and unpublished Le Corbusier building, making this book an incredibly significant addition to existing literature on the great man. In short, the new evidence and theories contained in this volume amount to major revelations about this hugely revered and central architectural figure of the 20th Century.
Author : Flora Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136388907
This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings. It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier's details were expressive of his overall philosophical intentions. It is not a construction book in the usual sense- rather it focusses on the meaning of detail, on the ways in which detail informs the overall architectural narrative of a building. Well illustrated and containing several specially prepared scaled drawings it acts as timely reminder to both students and architects of the possibilities inherent in the most small scale tectonic gestures.
Author : Simon Richards
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300095654
Filosofische analyse van het zelfconcept van de Zwitsers-Franse architect (1887-1965), herwaardering van zijn motieven als stadsplanoloog en nieuwe inzichten met betrekking tot zijn intellectuele relaties met andere leden van de avantgarde van de twintigste eeuw.
Author : Deborah Gans
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568985398
A picture may be worth a thousand words but there is no real substitute for personal experience and anyone who has visited Le Corbusier knows just how true this is. This architectural guide tells you everything you need to know to get to his buildings including maps, directions, and visitor information.
Author : Neil Leach
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415139144
Architecture and Revolutionpresents a series of essays which explore the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective.
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892368990
Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.
Author : Stanislaus von Moos
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9064506426
Originally published in Germany in 1968, this first comprehensive and critical survey of Le Corbusier's life and work soon became the standard text on the architect and polymath. French, Spanish, English, Japanese and Korean editions followed, but the book has now been out of print for almost two decades. In the meantime, Le Corbusier's archives in Paris have become available for research, resulting in an avalanche of scholarship. Von Moos' critical take and the basic criteria by which the subject is organized and historicized remain surprisingly pertinent in the context of this recent jungle of Corbusier studies. This new, completely revised edition is based on the 1979 version published in English by the MIT Press but offers a substantially updated body of illustrations. Each of the seven chapters is supplemented by a critical survey of recent scholarship on the respective issues. An updated edition of this acclaimed book, an essential read for students of architecture and architectural history.
