World of Art
eBook - ePub

World of Art

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

World of Art

About this book

Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes his perennial drive towards new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unité dHabitation at Marseilles; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and architecture historian Kenneth Frampton re-examines all the facets of his artistic and philosophical world-view in light of recent thinking, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the 21st century. This revised edition features a new introduction; some illustrations have now been replaced with colour.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About the Author
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction to the first edition
  7. Chapter 1 – The Formative Years 1887–1916
  8. Chapter 2 – Towards a New Architecture 1917–1927
  9. Chapter 3 – The City of Tomorrow 1910–1933
  10. Chapter 4 – Decorative Art Today 1925–1937
  11. Chapter 5 – A House, A Palace 1923–1929
  12. Chapter 6 – World Architect: Czechoslovakia, Russia, Brazil, North Africa, North America, France and Switzerland 1928–1936
  13. Chapter 7 – The Politics of the Unpolitical: Le Corbusier and Saint-Simonian Technocracy 1923–1947
  14. Chapter 8 – From Intermediate Technology to Regional Urbanization 1929–1946
  15. Chapter 9 – Towards a New Habitat 1922–1960
  16. Chapter 10 – The Sacred and the Profane: Le Corbusier and Spiritual Form 1948–1965
  17. Chapter 11 – Passage to India 1950–1965
  18. Chapter 12 – Le Poème de l’Angle Droit
  19. Chapter 13 – Fin d’un Monde: The Last Works 1939–1965
  20. Postscript: Le Corbusier in Retrospect
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Picture Credits
  24. Index
  25. Copyright