#0069　LE CORBUSIER and the Continual Revolution in Architecture

Category｜洋書

Language｜英語

Contents｜Le Corubudier

Author｜CHARLES JENCKS

Publisher｜THE MONACELLI PRESS

Publication date｜2000

Type｜ハードカバー

Pages｜381

Size｜210×260×43

Weight｜EEE

ISBN-10｜1-58093-077-2/1580930772　　

ISBN-13｜978-1-58093-077-2/9781580930772

Price｜YO-1944-500-2444-20210621

How do you Measure the worth of an architect? The architect Peter Smithson once wrote, apropos the Heroic Period of Early Modernism, “Mies is great, but “Corb communicates.”  Mies could teach you good architecture, but “Corb could make you leave home.”

That is a bizarre but interesting definition of greatness: someone who persuades you to change your life and embark on a new adventure. This Le Corbusier did to me, as to so many others, through his buildings, paintings, and, above all, writings on architecture. The passion for his field, once he had been weaned from engraving watches, was so strongly felt and transmitted through words and images as to convince several generations of students to become architects.

Indeed, Smithson’s words are something of an understatement since Le Corbusier wrote some fifty-seven books (depending on what one calls a book), including the widely read classic Vers une architecture. He was a consummate journalist, autobiographer, pamphleteer, and travel and architectural writer.

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