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Price: $200.00
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Sale: $122.01
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Manufacturer: Phaidon Press Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Editors of Phaidon
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Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2008-07-02
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Reading Level: 624
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Description: Le Corbusier Le Grand is an enormous and enormously appealing monograph on one of the greatest and most controversial visionaries of the twentieth century: Le Corbusier (1887-1965). Publisher Phaidon's super-sized volume features thousands of stunning photographs of the seminal architect, his buildings and plans, writings, and related documents (sketchbooks, personal snapshots, even postcards). With the turn of each page, readers can follow Corbusier's trajectory from revolutionary young artist and prolific writer to globe-trotting, celebrity-crusader for modern architecture and urban planning. Esteemed architectural historian and Corbusier expert Jean-Louis Cohen provides an elegant introductory essay to this veritable archive of images. We learn that although the Swiss-born Le Corbusier hailed from a small town in a small country under the modest name Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, he was destined for greatness--largely of his own design. A prime mover behind the International Style (perhaps the first truly global architectural-design language), Corbusier brought modern design principles and their promise of improved living standards to the world stage. Futuristic high rise apartment complexes, office towers, highly functional streamlined interiors and furniture made primarily of industrial materials may all be attributed in part to him and his controversial utopian mission to transform our daily lives into a highly functional and beautiful system. Le Corbusier Le Grand is an extravagant, yet essential tome for libraries, those interested in modernism, city planning, and especially those with a really big coffee table. --Lauren Nemroff
Take a Look at Featured Images from Le Corbusier Le Grand
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Price: $625.00
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Sale: $393.75
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Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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Number of Items: 8
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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Edition: 11
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2006-06-02
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Reading Level: 176240
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Description: Die acht Bände dieser außergewöhnlichen Edition, die zwischen 1929 und 1970 veröffentlicht wurde und seit dem immer wieder nachgedruckt wurde, dokumentiert die große Bandbreite des Werks von Le Corbusier. Sie dokumentieren das Werk des einflussreichsten Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts. In direkter Zusammenarbeit mit Le Corbusier in über 40 Jahren entstanden, bildet das Set eine einzigartige und erschöpfende Bestandsaufnahme seiner Gebäude, Projekte, Skizzenhefte, Manifeste, Zeichnungen und Texte, welche die Welt der Architektur nachhaltig verändert haben.
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Price: $9.99
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Sale: $6.08
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Manufacturer: Taschen
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jean-Louis Cohen
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Publisher: Taschen
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2005-01-15
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: Architectural poetry in the machine age Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it wasn't until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Uniti d'Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory essays explore the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects The body presents the most important works in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes, construction problems, and resolutions.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $25.01
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Fishman
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Edition: 1st MIT Press Pbk. Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 307.1216
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Publication Date: 1982-09-16
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens.'
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Price: $69.95
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Sale: $44.02
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Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tim Benton
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Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2007-10-23
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: The villas of the 1920s in and around Paris, including such modern classics as the Villa La Roche-Jeanneret in the Auteuil district of Paris, the Villa Stein-de Monzie in Garches, and the Villa Savoye in Poissy, constituted a radically new orientation for architecture that have made them central points of reference for all subsequent generations of architects right up to the present. This standard work, long out of print, reveals the design processes behind these icons of modernism, from the first idea to the occupation of the homes, and sheds light on the steps and contexts of daily work. It measures the concept of modern architecture against the built reality, and enables us to rediscover the architect Le Corbusier behind the myth. The continuing relevance of Le Corbusier’s oeuvre today is underscored by the extensive exhibition “Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture”, organized by the Vitra Design Museum in collaboration with the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Fondation Le Corbusier. The author, Tim Benton, is recognised as a leadinding expert on Le Corbusier and one of the most important art historians worldwide. He now teaches at the Open University, Great Britain’s largest university.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $19.77
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Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Prestel Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2002-03
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Reading Level: 132
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Description: This volume explores an unbuilt yet iconic project by Le Corbusier and its visual representation. The Venice Hospital is the uncontested epitome of the "mat", or carpet, building type - a low sprawling structure developed in the late 1950s and 1960s that is making a strong comeback in contemporary architecture. Planned in 1965 for the arsenal area at the edge of the city, the hospital was designed to extend the city's roads and canal networks, while simultaneously turning in on itself to create flexible, quasi-urban environments in the form of endlessly repeating courtyards. Upon Le Corbusier's death in 1965, Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente was commissioned to complete the building. However, due to changes in city government, the project was eventually abandoned. This study investigates this canonic example of Le Corbusier's late work and includes an account of de la Fuente's involvement in the project, previously unpublished drawings from his archive, and a reprint of Alison Smithson's seminal essay on "mat" buildings.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.66
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Le Corbusier
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.92
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Publication Date: 2007-11-30
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Reading Level: 286
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Description: Winning entry, General Trade Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2008 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston.
This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe in 1911. In a flood of highly personal impressions and visual notations, it records his first contact with the vernacular architecture that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life and his first sight of the monuments he most admired: the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon. Le Corbusier himself suppressed publication of this book during his lifetime; after his death, the text was released as "an unprefaced last confession."
Journey to the East can be read as a bildungsroman by a young author who would go on to become one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century. It is very much a story of awakening and a voyage of discoveries, recording a seven-month journey that took Le Corbusier from Berlin through Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Istanbul, Athos, Athens, Naples, and Rome, among other places. Le Corbusier considered this journey the most significant of his life; the compulsion he felt to record images and impressions established a practice he would continue for the rest of his career. For the next five decades, he would fill notebooks with ideas and sketches; he never stopped deriving inspiration from the memories of his first contact with the East, making this volume as much a historical document as a personal confession and diary. Ivan Zaknic's highly regarded translation was first published by The MIT Press in 1987 but has been unavailable for many years.
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Price: $168.00
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Sale: $114.06
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Manufacturer: Vitra Design Museum
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Le Corbusier
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Publisher: Vitra Design Museum
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Dewey Decimal Number: 729
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 398
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Description: One of the key figures in 20th-century architecture, Le Corbusier had an impact that is still potent today. Whether admirers are making a pilgrimage to his intimate, evocative chapel at Ronchamps, or urban planners are reviling his monolithic apartment blocks as inhuman and unlivable, Le Corbu still has the power to inspire and polarize the architecture and urban-planning world. This richly illustrated monograph, based on the first major Le Corbusier retrospective in more than 20 years, presents an overview of his work, including not only architectural projects, interior design and furniture, but also paintings, textiles, sculpture, drawings, and books.
Full of new discoveries and perspectives for longtime followers of Le Corbusier's work, this book is based on a rich trove of previously unpublished material, and on the latest research. Essays by well-known Le Corbusier experts examine aspects of his work, including the relationship between sculpture and architecture, his work as an interior designer, his fascination with new media and the technical object, and his lifelong interest in Asia. A comprehensive introduction to the work and influences of the architect of the century, a title that he fully deserves. With texts by Stanislaus von Moos, Jean-Louis Cohen, Arthur Ruegg, Beatriz Colomina, Mateo Kries, and others.
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![Le Modulor and Modulor 2 [ENGLISH EDITION] under Le Corbusier in The Books Store](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61FFaI2GodL.jpg) |
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $31.47
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Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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Number of Items: 2
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Le Corbusier::Le Corbusier
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Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 729.23
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Publication Date: 2004-06-02
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Reading Level: 580
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Description: In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor". Based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, Modulor is a sequence of measurements which Le Corbusier used to achieve harmony in his architectural compositions. Le Modulor was published in 1950 and after meeting with success, Le Corbusier went on to publish Modulor 2 in 1955. In many of Le Corbusier's most notable buildings, including the Chapel at Ronchamp and the Unité d'habitation, evidence of his Modulor system can be seen. These two volumes form an important and integral part of Le Corbusier's theoretical writings.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $29.31
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Manufacturer: Reaktion Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Juan Ramirez
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Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2000-05-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Since time immemorial, bees have been associated with all manner of virtues. The beehive has served as the model for an ideal society, while honey and wax have provided the basis for countless positive metaphors of sweetness and productivity. The natural architecture created by bees in their hives can be said to approach perfection. In The Beehive Metaphor, Juan Antonio Ramírez shows how this lucid modular structure had a considerable influence on the architects and artists who founded the Modern movement. Models from both traditional and "modern" or "rational" apiculture were studied and reinterpreted by such key figures as Gaudí, Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Beuys.Inspired by his own father's obsession with bee-keeping – which wiped out the family's fortune – Ramírez examines the complex ideological, political and artistic repercussions of apian metaphors, thereby enhancing our understanding of the relationship between ecology, animal husbandry and architecture.
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