Toward an Architecture - Couverture rigide

Le Corbusier

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0892368993 ISBN 13 : 9780892368990

Editeur : Getty Research Institute, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jean-Louis Cohen (1949-2023) authored over 30 books on architectural history and was a preeminent authority on Le Corbusier. John Goodman is a translator and art historian. He has rendered some thirty books from French into English.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Getty Research Institute
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0892368993
• ISBN 13: 9780892368990
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 358
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