Category｜洋書
Language｜英語
Contents｜ル・コルビュジエ 生涯
Author｜Phaidon editors
Publisher｜PHAIDON
Publication date｜2008, 2014, 2019
Type｜ペーパーバック
Pages｜847
Size｜290×222×42
Weight｜EEE
Price｜ME-3000-（800）-3000-20210605
By the 1930s, the physical image of Le Corbusier had become so identified with that of the modem architect that advertisements intended to appeal to members of the profession would show architects wearing circular, black-rimmed glasses and a bow tie, in imitation of the original. By this time Le Corbusier was a real media star: for almost six decades he never stopped mobilizing the press, radio, and film in support of his ideas and schemes.
At first under his original identity – the name he was given at birth, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret – and then, from 1920, using his assumed name of Le Corbusier, he wrote thirty-four books containing some seven thousand pages of text, plus hundreds of articles and lectures that he presented in every continent except Australia. His dominant presence in the public sphere, combined with his fascination for technology and its objects, made him into a sort of total architect, deeply committed to the process of modernization.
The contrivance of a striking physical and sartorial image was clearly part of his effort to seize public attention, as is suggested by Fernand Leger’s recollection of his first meeting with him. The artist speaks of having seen him approach “bolt upright, an extraordinary mobile object in a bowler hat, with glasses and a black overcoat. The object was riding a bicycle, scrupulously obeying the laws of perspective.
引用｜LE CORBUSIER LE GRAND
