45 results for '"Le Corbusier"'

For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-douard Jeanneret, 1887?1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic...

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his death (August 27, 2015), one of Le Corbusier's most significant books becomes available again in English. We are doing a reprint of MIT Press's first...

Le Corbusier's (1887-1965) Poésie sur Alger, written in 1942 and first published in 1950, is a self-mocking examination of 13 intensive years of ultimately abortive work, during which Le Corbusier...

A revised and updated edition of a bestselling introduction to Le Corbusier, one of the leading architects of the twentieth century. Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the twentieth...

"Pour la première fois, un ouvrage collectif rassemblant huit auteurs de cinq pays, et préfacé par le philosophe Emmanuel Faye, porte un regard calmement lucide sur un monument de l'histoire du XXe...

A travers l'analyse des projets, réalisations et livres de l'architecte, urbaniste et homme de lettres que fut Le Corbusier, cet essai propose une critique approfondie de la froide vision du monde...

Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as...

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay...

A captivating and comprehensively illustrated study of the seventeenth-century Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto, JapanAn outstanding example of Japanese architecture, Katsura has inspired countless...

A richly illustrated catalog exploring the cultural significance and role of automobiles in interwar France. Heavily illustrated, this catalog explores the role of the automobile as both object...

Militant Modernism is a defence against Modernism's many detractors. It looks at design, film and architecture - especially architecture ― and pursues the notion of an evolved modernism that simply...

Why do we find the idea of a multi-colored Parthenon so shocking today? Why was the Eiffel Tower such a target for hatred when it was first built? Is the Sagrada Família a work of genius or kitsch?...

Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Certain terms -- "diagram, "...

Colquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses...

"After 1945 our plutocrats, bureaucrats, board chairmen, CEOs, commissioners, and college presidents undergo an inexplicable change. They become diffident and reticent. All at once they are willingto...

Initially produced as the catalog to accompany a controversial and groundbreaking 1932 Museum of Modern Art show of the then new architecture emerging in Europe and America, The International Style...

A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman...

Monograph dedicated to one of Italy's most talented proponents of Rationalist architecture, Giuseppe Terragni (1904-1943), with a focus on his experience during WWIIEdited by Giuseppe Terragni's...

Product Description Explores the social, political, economic, and cultural atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties and its impact on the development and character of the arts From Library...

If you've ever wondered what goes through architects' minds when they design buildings, you'll be happy to know that there's no shortage of brilliant reading material to satisfy your curiosity...