This visual biography showcases the life and work of a renowned 20th-century architect, highlighting his groundbreaking designs and contributions to modern architecture. Through stunning imagery and insightful commentary, the book explores his innovative techniques and the impact he had on the architectural landscape. It offers an in-depth look at his most significant projects and the artistic vision that defined his career, making it an essential read for architecture enthusiasts and history buffs alike.
The villas of the 1920s in and around Paris, including iconic designs like Villa La Roche-Jeanneret, Villa Stein-de Monzie, and Villa Savoye, represent a groundbreaking shift in architecture that continues to influence generations of architects. This essential work, previously out of print, explores the design processes behind these modernist landmarks, detailing everything from initial concepts to the completion of the homes. It examines the relationship between the ideals of modern architecture and its practical realities, allowing readers to rediscover Le Corbusier beyond his legendary status. The relevance of his work is highlighted by the exhibition “Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture,” organized by the Vitra Design Museum in collaboration with leading architectural institutions. Tim Benton, a prominent expert on Le Corbusier and a significant figure in art history, teaches at the Open University, the largest university in Great Britain. This book provides a fresh perspective on the architect's contributions, emphasizing the continued significance of his designs in contemporary discourse.
Beginning in the „heroic“ period of the 1920s, Le Corbusier presented his work to the world in his lectures: in Paris and Rome, Geneva and Zurich, Barcelona and Brussels, Prague and Moscow, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, as well as at Columbia University in New York. In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the arguments and strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing highlights and fuses them into an architectural conception that every advanced architectural position and practice must still come to terms with today. After presenting the lectures in detail in a series of thematic chapters, the final third of the book reproduces five pivotal lectures from the 1920s and 1950s.
Jasmine is a young dancer who wants to become a professional ballerina, but her father wants her to give up ballet to concentrate on her schoolwork. Will she change his mind by being the star perfomer in Miss Coralie's show?
Reveals the results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to
day-to-day living. This book dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional
home, modernizing the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural
light and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the
open air.
In 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the elegant house in Roquebrune-Cap-Mar- tin in southern France is an icon of modernism. In 1937, Le Corbusier discovered the place and the “Maison en Bord de Mer”. Inspired by the genius of the place and the light on the Côte d'Azur, he created a total of eight large-format wall paintings there in 1938 and 1939 onwards, some of which complement the building congenially, while others set counterpoints. In 1952, he built his Cabanon nearby and decorated it with murals as well. The book by the well-known architectural historian Tim Benton documents Le Corbusier's artwork at this special place, explores its controversies, and places it in his overall oeuvre. The fascinating photographs by Manuel Bougot capture the special atmosphere of the villa Le Corbusier's painting is lesser known but was formative for his lifelong preoccupation with polychromy After extensive renovation work until 2021, E 1027, as well as the Cabanon, is open to the public again
E.1027 war das Haus, das die irische Architektin und Designerin Eileen Gray für sich und ihren jungen Geliebten, den rumänischen Architekten Jean Badovici, 1929 plante und erbaute. Sie entwickelte auch das Mobiliar für das Sommerhaus - der Beistelltisch E.1027 ist heute ein Designklassiker. Die Villa gilt mit ihrer Eleganz und den nautischen Bezügen als Kleinod der Moderne. Auf Einladung Badovicis schuf Freund und Nachbar Le Corbusier dort 1945 acht großformatige Wandgemälde - gegen den Willen der Hausherrin, die allerdings zu dem Zeitpunkt das Haus bereits für immer verlassen hatte. Die Publikation stellt die Gemälde vor und erzählt die ungewöhnliche Geschichte. Das Haus in Cap Martin an der Côte d'Azur ist seit aufwendigen Sanierungsmaßnahmen seit 2021 wieder für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Weiterhin geht das Buch auf die Malerei von Le Corbusier als Ganzes ein und zeigt seine Arbeiten in seinem eigenen Sommerhaus „Cabanon“, ebenfalls in Cap Martin. Die faszinierenden Fotografien von Manuel Bougot fangen die besondere Atmosphäre der Villa ein Die weniger bekannte Malerei Le Corbusiers war prägend für seine lebenslange Beschäftigung mit der Polychromie Nach der aufwendigen Sanierung bis 2021 ist die Villa E1027, ebenso wie das Cabanon, wieder zugänglich
