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Book Title
Le Corbusier The Measures of Man
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Adults
Inscribed
No
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Personalized
No
Features
Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre
Art & Culture, Architecture, City Planning
Country/Region of Manufacture
Unknown
Topic
Architecture, City Planning, Art, Urban Planning, Furniture, Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Theoretical Wrtitings
ISBN
9783858817686
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Scheidegger Und Albert Spiess A&G, Verlag
ISBN-10
3858817686
ISBN-13
9783858817686
eBay Product ID (ePID)
210354046

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Corbusier-The Measures of Man
Subject
Individual Architects & Firms / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Regional
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Architecture
Author
Olivier Cinqualbre
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
0.1 Oz
Item Length
12 in
Item Width
9.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
TitleLeading
Le
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Recommended . . . . Le Corbusier: The Measure of Man provides a remarkably vivid description of an enigmatic twentieth-century Renaissance man who was an artist, architect, theorist, and writer. . . . The well-researched, well-illustrated, but sometimes conflicting views presented in the book provide an ironically accurate view of a very complex individual., Recommended . . . . Le Corbusier: The Measure of Man provides a remarkably vivid description of an enigmatic twentieth-century Renaissance man who was an artist, architect, theorist, and writer. . . . The well-researched, well-illustrated, but sometimes conflicting views presented in the book provide an ironically accurate view of a very complex individual., Five hundred images trace Le Corbusier's achievements in architecture as well as his work as a painter and sculptor.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
720.92
Table Of Content
Foreword / Alain Seban Preface / Bernard Blistène Constants of Eurhythmics Eyes within Eyes. Architecture and Mathesis / Frédéric Migayrou Purism and Proportions / Roxana Vicovanu The L'Esprit Nouveau Pavilion. Manifesto for a Corbusian System / Maïlis Favre A Body for Living Houses and Villas (1921-1931). The Eloquence of Sketches / Olivier Cinqualbre The Corbusian Sportive Body / Rémi Baudouï and Arnaud Dercelles Le Corbusier. Furnishing Body and Soul / Cloé Pitiot Dimensions of an Anthropometry Touching the Body. Le Corbusier's Figurative Works / Genevieve Hendricks The Modulor. Variances of an Invariant / Frédéric Migayrou The Open Hand. From Political Symbol to the Artist's Signature / Marie-Jeanne Dumont The Ineffable Space Genesis and Representation of the Ineffable Space / Roberto Gargiani Béton Brut, Acoustic Plasticity, and the "Cement Gun" / Anna Rosellini Polychromy / Jan de Heer The Universal Man The City Laid Bare / Aurélien Lemonier A Room to Spend the Summer / Olivier Cinqualbre Postface: Confessions, Tribulations, Evolutions.../ Marie-Jeanne Dumont Bibliography
Synopsis
The Centre Pompidou is devoting a retrospective to the work of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier . Not only a visionary architect, urban planner and theorist of modernity, but also a painter and sculptor, Le Corbusier made a profound impression on the 20th century in dramatically changing architectural design and the way people lived in it. The Centre Pompidou invites audiences to grasp the output of this major figure in modernity through the idea of human proportions, the human body being essential as a universal principle defining all aspects of architecture and spatial composition. Based on a chronology structured by the main stages of this new aesthetic concept, the exhibition offers a fresh journey through Le Corbusier's work. Here the body is "seeing" and "cognitive", and we get a consistent picture of all the thinking that went into his painted, sculpted and architectural output. The modernist Le Corbusier who created Purist architecture is often pitted against the post-war Le Corbusier, the exponent of a concrete Brutalism and more organic forms. But the exhibition shows how his entire approach was in fact totally seamless., Few figures tower over modern architecture and city life like Le Corbusier. His dramatic rethinking of the principles and aims of architectural design made a profound impression on the spaces of twentieth-century cities and the ways that people lived in them. Le Corbusier--The Measure of Man offers the most up-to-date picture we have of Le Corbusier's achievement. A new generation of researchers and curators looks in particular at his life-long study of the human proportion and how the human body should be housed. Created to accompany a breathtakingly ambitious retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the book traces Le Corbusier's life and work from his earliest days through his greatest successes and lasting influences. It covers not only his iconic building designs and bold plans for city centers, but also presents a substantial exploration of his achievements as a painter and sculptor as well. Lavishly illustrated with nearly five hundred images--three-quarters of them in full color-- Le Corbusier--The Measure of Man is an incredible celebration of the master architect's achievement. Introducing him afresh form today's perspective, it will be absolutely essential for both his admirers and critics.
LC Classification Number
NA1053.J4

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