Chandigarh: Forty Years AFter Le Corbusier
The Indian city of Chandigarh was Le Corbusier's only successful attempt to implement his controversial idea's concerning the ideal city. His masterplan has determined the shape of the city to the present day. Designed to reflect the spirit of India's new found independence and powerful nationalist feeling, its design and subsequent development has been beset by controversy over the years. This book is the result of a major in-depth study into contemporary life in the 'City Beautiful' and its relationship to Le Corbusier's architectural designs. Profusely illustrated with specially commissioned photographs and several of Le Corbusier's drawings, some published for the first time, it provides the most up to date study of one of the most significant urban development projects of the 20th century. Text in English 320 x 240mm Paper 68pp, 73 colour, 9 b/w photos 30 line drawings,sketches & maps1037 $41.06
Le Corbusier
Stephen Gardiner Paper 256pp 107 illus1088 $15.58
Villas of Le Corbusier 1920-1930
Benton,Tim 9 1/8x 11 1/4 Paper 244pp 16 CP 200 b/w illus.1145 $42.61
Le Corbusier:Form & Ideas
William J.R.Curtis Le Corbusier (1887-1965) has been one of the dominant forces in 20th century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archeypes of modernism. He was also a social visionary and a writer of polemics, whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy. Now available for the first time in paperback, Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms provides a comprehensive and unbiased survey that pus Le Corbusier's career in a more balanced perspective. 280 x 215mm Paper 240 pages, 31 colour, 212 b/w illustrations1426 $45.46
A Workshop For Peace
George Dudley George Dudley is an architect & planner who was present and kept official notes of the 45 meetings of the International Board of Design for the United Nations. In this book he unfolds the first eyewitness account of the creation of a landmark building that was functionally and symbolically important in its time, marking the emergence of modern architecture as the dominant language of post-war institutions and cities. In tackling the long-standing questions of authorship, Dudley reproduces pages from Le Corbusier's U.N. sketchbook for that period, long thought to be irretrievably lost, and sheds light on Le Corbusier's contribution to the design process. A Workshop For Peace is an invaluable record of a design process in which the principle players-Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Sven Markelius, Wallces Harrison, Howard Robertson, Louis Skidmore, Julio Vilamajo, Ssu-Ch'eng Liang and Max Abramovitz- disagree with one another and collaborate in turns. The Board of Design took pains to present the design as the unanimous result achieved by this group, and agreed that no individual credit should be given to any one architect. Le Corbusier began a campaign after he left New York to claim that the central idea for the U.N.'s design was his alone. Dudley carefully analyzes the evolution of the design and compares the scheme to dated entries in Le Corbusier's sketchbooks during the design process. 8.5 x11 Cloth 432pp 309 illus. 1462 $92.48
The Le Corbusier Guide
Deborah Gans Feature photographs,plans, and precise descriptions of Le Corbusiers 69 extant buildings in Europe, Japan, Russia, Africa, India, and North & South America. An essay by Alan Platus and a biographical note introduce the reader th the ideas and life of this great architect. Also contains maps, directions, and visitor information, including opening hours and telephone numbers. 5.5 x 9 Paper 192pp, 175 b/w illus. 1499 $25.54
Le Corbusier
Willy Boesiger This concise paperback is a synthesis of Le Corbusier's collected works, originally published in several volumes, as well as a biographical profile and an exhaustive catalogue of all his designs and built work 5 1/2 x 8 Paper 262pp, 525illus,1743 $27.06
Weber Cloth 1802 $249.90 Le Corbusier: 1910-1965 Boesiger & Girsberger Comprehensive, concise and profusely illustrated coverage of the complete range of Le Corbusier's achievements. 11 x 9 Cloth 352pp,530 illus.
1803 $77.11
Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms
William J.R.Curtis When originally published in cloth in 1986, this book was called the most lucid and complete chronicle yet available of Le Corbusier's achievement. Thsi book excels 9 x 11 Paper 224pp,282 illus., 31 in colour.1804 $49.98
Le Corbusier: Oeuvre Complete
Ed. by Willy Boesiger The definitive record of Le Corbusier's work, this eight volume set is widely recognized as the most important architectural production of the century. 11 x 9 Cloth 1708pp,over 3000 illustrations1805 $606.90