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Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms

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Description for Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms Hardcover. Revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive study of Le Corbusier Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 326 x 270 x 45. Weight in Grams: 2976.

An expanded edition on the master of Modernism, Le Corbusier, by award-winning architectural historian William J. R. Curtis.

Originally published in 1996 to critical fanfair, scholar William J.R. Curtis has re-issued his classic text with extensive new scholarship and contemporary research that continues the high standard of the original. Presented chronologically with a clear narrative, Curtis has worked tirelessly not only to document Le Corbusier's key projects in detail but to contextualize them within the architect's overarching philosophy of urbanism and art and the pervading culture of Le Corbusier's time. With full access to the renowned Le Corbusier archive, Curtis' text ... Read more

Praise for the first edition:

"This is not only the best single work on Le Corbusier - a model of scholarship, erudite yet eminently readable - it is also an invaluable analysis of the creative architectural process. It should be read and re-read by every student of architecture." - Building Design

"William J. R. Curtis is the best architectural historian writing in the English language." - Chicago Tribune

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Product Details

Publisher
Phaidon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780714868943
SKU
V9780714868943
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About William J R Curtis
William J R Curtis is an award-winning historian, critic, writer, curator, painter and photographer. Educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and at Harvard University, he has taught the history of art, theories of design and architecture at several universities worldwide: among others, Harvard University; the Architectural Association, London; UNAM, Mexico City; ETSAB, Barcelona; Helsinki Institute of Technology; the ... Read more

Reviews for Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms
"The most lucid and complete chronicle yet available of Le Corbusier’s achievement and (in the words of his title) the 'ideas and forms' which successively and cumulatively account for its significance. It is, then, as incise narrative... Illuminated by penetrating critical commentary that this book excels."—Times Literary Supplement "This book is an admirable as well as well-timed introduction ... Read more

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