Le Corbusier : an atlas of modern landscapes

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Label

Le Corbusier : an atlas of modern landscapes

Title remainder

an atlas of modern landscapes

Statement of responsibility

Jean-Louis Cohen

Title variation

Atlas of modern landscapes

Creator

• Cohen, Jean-Louis

Contributor

• Pare, Richard
• CaixaForum (Barcelona, Spain)
• CaixaForum (Madrid, Spain)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

Author

• Cohen, Jean-Louis

Host institution

• CaixaForum (Barcelona, Spain)
• CaixaForum (Madrid, Spain)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Photographer

• Pare, Richard

Subject

• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 -- Exhibitions
• Architecture, Modern -- Exhibitions
• Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Exhibitions

Genre

• Exhibitions

Language

eng

Summary

• "This volume examines Le Corbusier's relationship with the topographies of five continents, in essays by thirty of the foremost scholars of his work and with contemporary photographs by Richard Pare"--Dust jacket
• "This volume examines Le Corbusier's relationship with the topographies of five continents, in essays by thirty of the foremost scholars of his work and with contemporary photographs by Richard Pare. The Swiss-born, Paris-based architect is often remembered as having been aggressively indifferent to the sites of his buildings and plans, but this new generation of research, analysis, and interpretation asserts that even the most generic of his projects responded to specific geographies. His sketchbooks, letters, and publications confirm that he was deeply involved with both optical and bodily relationships to landscape over the course of his creative life, from his beginnings in Switzerland, as a disciple of the regional style sapin in his hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds, to the creation of the new Indian city of Chandigarh; from touring Europe in his Avions Voisin automobile to mapping South America from the air; from inserting grand plans into existing urban layouts to setting a chapel atop an isolated hill in Ronchamp. Whether in an intimate suburban plot or against a dramatic horizon, Le Corbusier transformed territories into landscapes." -- Publisher's description

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plans

Index

index present

LC call number

NA1053.J4

LC item number

A4 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs