• critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.5 x 16 cm.
  • 379 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Le Corbusier : Elements of a Synthesis

Le Corbusier, Stanislaus von Moos

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"This is the first scholarly and critical study of Le Corbusier's work as a whole. It organizes his ideas in terms of the basic themes - intellectual, artistic, and ideological - that characterize his contribution to modern art and architecture and illustrates these with over 200 line drawings and halftones. Instead of exhaustively cataloging or explicating the work itself, von Moos examines the intellectual and artistic context from which Le Corbusier's work emerges. He considers painting and sculpture as an essential part of the architect's artistic method and message and establishes links between art theory, the history of ideas, and artistic practice. Le Corbusier considered painting his visual laboratory for his architecture and a medium for private and personal expression. The last chapter explores and analyzes his painting as an essential ingredient of his development as an architect. This translation of the 1968 German edition, which is already familiar to Le Corbusier scholars, has been substantially updated and includes amny previously unpublished documents of Le Corbusier's work from the archives of the Fondation Le Corbusier opened to researchers in 1972. In seven chapters it discusses Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Purism, Typology and Design Method, Variations on a Utopian Theme, Public Buildings, and Elements of a Synthesis. Architectural historians, architects, and admirers of Le Corbusier will welcome von Moos's study, and there is a much material that will interest art historians and students of Art Nouveau and the Modern Movement." -- from interior flap. Text in English. Includes notes, list of figures, and index. Printed in black-and-white.

Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom: The MIT Press,
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