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Le Corbusier a life

Nicholas Fox Weber 1947-

New York Alfred A. Knopf 2008

Localização: IAU - Inst. Arquitetura e Urbanismo    (720.092 W375L )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Le Corbusier a life
  • Autor: Nicholas Fox Weber 1947-
  • Assuntos: Le Corbusier 1887-1965; Le Corbusier; Architects -- France -- Biography; BIOGRAFIAS; ARQUITETOS
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 773-801) and index
  • Descrição: From an acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, this is the first full-scale life of Le Corbusier: one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded as a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings; a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture. In this first biography of the man, the author writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism-- vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. He writes about Le Corbusier's training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru, Brassai, Malraux (who championed Le Corbusier's work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris), Einstein, Matisse, the Steins, Picasso, Walter Gropius, and others. We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated governments only for
    the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitl
  • Editor: New York Alfred A. Knopf
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2008
  • Formato: xxi, 821 p., [16] p. of plates ill. (some col.), ports 25 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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