• monograph
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26 x 27 cm.
  • 451 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262030780

Le Corbusier Sketchbooks

Vol. 1, 1914 - 1948

Le Corbusier, André Wogenscky, Maurice Besset, Françoise de Franclieu

description

First volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Preface by André Wogenscky, introduction by Maurice Besset, and notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "Le Corbusier's buildings and writings are widely considered the most important testimony of twentieth-century architecture. No estimate of the architect's genius can be made without reference to the sketchbooks that he carried with him throughout his life. In the sketchbooks Le Corbusier drew what he saw around him and recorded his ideas touching on art, architecture, people, and places - ideas that are poetry, at times whimsical, and often startling. The sketchbooks provide an intimate view of his mind and will give a new dimension to our understanding the great architect. When considering a new project, the architect often referred to his notations, even those made years before; and the travel sketchbooks were a perennial source of inspiration as well as a record of his own self-critique. In their revelation of the creative process, the sketchbooks are an important aid to methodological and psychological study. They are remarkable for the powerful immediacy of the drawings. In addition, the details of Le Corbusier's architectural production are of enormous historical value. Le Corbusier carefully preserved these documents and selected a special group of them for publication." -- from interior flap. Printed in black-and-white and color. Text in English.

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New York / Cambridge / London, NY / MA / United Kingdom: The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press,
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