Le Corbusier Ordre des livres

'La Construction des villes' lautet der Titel des Manuskripts, das Le Corbusier 1910/11 im Rahmen seines einjährigen Aufenthaltes in Deutschland verfasst hat und das sich mit den architektonisch-künstlerischen Aufgaben des Städtebaus auseinandersetzt. Durch die bevorzugte Orientierung an ästhetischen Aspekten der Städtebautheorie nimmt es in Le Corbusiers Œuvre eine Sonderstellung ein und setzt sich in prägnanter Weise von der funktionalen Rhetorik seiner späteren städtebaulichen Entwürfe und Schriften ab. Die vorliegende Publikation präsentiert Le Corbusiers Manuskript erstmals in vollständiger Form – im französischen Originaltext und in deutscher Übersetzung, zusammen mit den von Le Corbusier vorgesehenen Abbildungen und relevanten Ausschnitten der von ihm herangezogenen Quellen. Darüber hinaus untersucht Christoph Schnoor die Entstehungsgeschichte des Manuskriptes, unterzieht es einer kritischen Würdigung und ordnet es ein in den zeitgenössischen Kontext.

Vieille de plus d'un quart de siècle La Charte d'Athènes reste en tous points à l'ordre du jour : qu'il s'agisse de l'habitation, des loisirs, du travail, de la circulation ou encore de la sauvegarde du patrimoine historique des villes, les observations sur lesquelles est fondé ce manifeste montrent que "le chaos est entré dans les villes" et y demeure ...

the Unité in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of controversial debate, the Unité in Marseille continues to attract numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the latest addition to Birkhäuser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his Unités in Rezé-les-Nantes, Briey en Forêt, Firminy and Berlin. The author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.

in 1952 Le Corbusier was commissioned „to dwell in the silence of men of prayer and study and to construct a church for them“. The result was his impressive Convent of La Tourette, marking a significant step in modern religious architecture. Beginning with the rectangular form common to the Cirstercian monastic tradition, he created a building whose stark form contrasts beautifully with the organic elements of the interior court and the grasslands surrounding it. The church itself is a model of simplicity, the cement has been left rough and the well located sources of light evoke a feeling of silence and reflection. The order s precept of prayer, study and reflection is aptly mirrored in the architecture. Like the other Le Corbusier Guides published by Birkhäuser, this volume provides a wealth of plans, details, photographs and information on this building which today is also a conference centre.

leCorbusier became famous throughout the world for his unique contribution to 20th century architecture. His buildings and projects are internationally acclaimed and widely documented. Now the time has come to discover the man behind the architecture. Jean Jenger, longtime President of the Fondation Le Corbusier, has selected 322 of the most attractive and interesting letters from over 5000 of Le Corbusier’s correspondence documents, many of them previously unpublished. For the first time a quite different yet authentic image of the Swiss-French architect emerges: behind the shy and brusque manner, a sensitive even gentle person is to be found. Full of surprises, this volume not only reveals the private side to a public figures, it is also the portrait of an era.

L'éd. originale de cet ouvrage a été publ. en 1925 sous le titre "L'art décoratif d'aujourd'hui" par les éd. G. Grès et Cie à Paris.

For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional relationships by means of raw materials." The first major exposition of his ideas appeared in Vers une Architecture (1923), a compilation of articles originally written by Le Corbusier for his own avant-garde magazine, L'Esprit Nouveau. The present volume is an unabridged English translation of the 13th French edition of that historic manifesto, in which Le Corbusier expounded his technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, relation of form to function, the "mass-production spirit," and much else. A principal prophet of the "modern" movement in architecture, and a near-legendary figure of the "International School," he designed some of the twentieth century's most memorable buildings: Chapel at Ronchamp; Swiss dormitory at the Cité Universitaire, Paris; Unité d'Habitation, Marseilles; and many more. Le Corbusier brought great passion and intelligence to these essays, which present his ideas in a concise, pithy style, studded with epigrammatic, often provocative, observations: "American engineers overwhelm with their calculations our expiring architecture." "Architecture is stifled by custom. It is the only profession in which progress is not considered necessary." "A cathedral is not very beautiful . . ." and "Rome is the damnation of the half-educated. To send architectural students to Rome is to cripple them for life." Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of his own works and other structures he considered important, Towards a New Architecture is indispensable reading for architects, city planners, and cultural historians―but will intrigue anyone fascinated by the wide-ranging ideas, unvarnished opinions, and innovative theories of one of this century's master builders.