Category｜洋書
Language｜英語
Contents｜ル･コルビュジエ 作品集
Author｜JEAN-LOUIS COHEN
Publisher｜TASCHEN
Publication date｜2004
Type｜ペーパーバック（折）
Pages ｜76
Size｜188×229×8
Weight｜358
Price：VV-1575
Few architects have embodied the hopes and disillusionments of the industrial age as Le Corbusier did, nor have any quite so scandalized and outraged their contemporaries, with the possible exception of Adolf Loos for a certain period and Frank Lloyd Wright throughout his lifetime. For much of Le Corbusier’s life, sarcasm and slander were the bedfellows of one of the rare architects whose widespread fame has made his a household name. Between the Fallet House, built in 1906-07, and his posthumous projects, the unremitting production spanning six decades never ceases to amaze.
Le Corbusier built 75 edifices in 12 countries, and took on 42 major city-planning projects. He left behind 8,000 drawings, more than 400 paintings and pictures, 44 sculptures and 27 tapestry cartoons. He wrote 34 books, totaling some 7,000 pages, and hundreds of articles; he gave lectures and has left behind some 6,500 private letters, in addition to his voluminous business correspondence.
Le Corbusier came of age at the time when cars and airplanes were becoming a common means of transportation, thus he was one of the first professional architects to ply his trade on several continents at once, looming as an internationally recognized architect well ahead of the pack. But thanks to photogravure and the modern press, he also became a public figure whose sundry declarations often caused a stir. This all-round man, always eager to cultivate his public persona, encompassed all the tensions of the 20th century, but at the same time he bequeathed a body of work unique in its complexity.
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