Fifth volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "In these last sketchbooks the government complex at the new capital, Chandigarh, nears completion. Sari-swathed women bear flower pots, echoing the stance of half-naked workmen carrying bags of concrete on their heads. The Indians' simple garb and ease amid the chaos of construction are described vividly. Here too are records of the beginnings of Le Corbusier's last buildings : the extraordinary convent of La Tourette near Lyons; the controversial Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (the architect's only building in the United States); the Firminy Cultural Center; the Zurich Le Corbusier Center. Unexecuted projects are also sketched : a church for Firminy; two museums; a congress hall at Strasbourg, a national cultural center and a French embassy for Brasilia; a hospital at Venice; and housing and urban plans. With creative energies undiminished, in his late sixties the architect became more introspective and self-critical. Obviously delighted with many of his achievements (he refers to the Assembly Hall at Chandigarh as a 'totality of boundless architecture'), he reassessed others, such as the Unités, the Salvation Army shelter, and the Swiss and Brazilian pavilions at the University of Paris. Preoccupied with the fate of his artistic legacy, Le Corbusier planned a foundation in his name. Such notes alternate with sketches for a tomb for his wife, Yvonne, who had died in 1957. On the last of these pages a simple delineation of the Nice-Menton boat recalls the architect's lifelong devotion to the sea, the sea in which Le Corbusier was to drown in 1965." -- from interior flap. Printed in black-and-white and color. Text in English.