L'Unité D'habitation
Title | L'Unité D'habitation PDF eBook |
Author | David Jenkins |
Publisher | Phaidon Incorporated Limited |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 1993-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780714827704 |
The Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles is a key building of the twentieth century, and a seminal work in Le Corbusier's oeuvre. A precursor of buildings in Nantes, Berlin, Briey-en-Foret and Firminy, it established, in built form, Le Corbusier's ideas of public housing that had existed only on paper for more than twenty-five years. David Jenkins argues that the Marseilles Unite stands out as a powerful and convincing testament of Le Corbusier's fundamental humanism and his faith in the principles of the Ville Radieuse and the Brutalist medium of rough cast concrete which in other, less able hands, have since been called into question.
Le Corbusier – L'Unité d habitation de Marseille / The Unité d Habitation in Marseilles
Title | Le Corbusier – L'Unité d habitation de Marseille / The Unité d Habitation in Marseilles PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Sbriglio |
Publisher | Birkhäuser |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2015-04-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 3035603936 |
the Unité in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of controversial debate, the Unité in Marseille continues to attract numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the latest addition to Birkhäuser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his Unités in Rezé-les-Nantes, Briey en Forêt, Firminy and Berlin. The author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.
Kamala House
Title | Kamala House PDF eBook |
Author | BV Doshi |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-06-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788409120895 |
Modern Man
Title | Modern Man PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Flint |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0544262220 |
Journalist Flint recounts the life and times of the legendary architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier, and provides illuminating details of his most iconic projects.
The LEGO Architect
Title | The LEGO Architect PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Alphin |
Publisher | No Starch Press |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1593276133 |
Travel through the history of architecture in The LEGO Architect. You’ll learn about styles like Art Deco, Modernism, and High-Tech, and find inspiration in galleries of LEGO models. Then take your turn building 12 models in a variety of styles. Snap together some bricks and learn architecture the fun way!
Le Corbusier
Title | Le Corbusier PDF eBook |
Author | Stanislaus von Moos |
Publisher | 010 Publishers |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9064506426 |
Originally published in Germany in 1968, this first comprehensive and critical survey of Le Corbusier's life and work soon became the standard text on the architect and polymath. French, Spanish, English, Japanese and Korean editions followed, but the book has now been out of print for almost two decades. In the meantime, Le Corbusier's archives in Paris have become available for research, resulting in an avalanche of scholarship. Von Moos' critical take and the basic criteria by which the subject is organized and historicized remain surprisingly pertinent in the context of this recent jungle of Corbusier studies. This new, completely revised edition is based on the 1979 version published in English by the MIT Press but offers a substantially updated body of illustrations. Each of the seven chapters is supplemented by a critical survey of recent scholarship on the respective issues. An updated edition of this acclaimed book, an essential read for students of architecture and architectural history.
Le Corbusier
Title | Le Corbusier PDF eBook |
Author | Cemal Emden |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-11-21 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 3791384023 |
This visual tour of every one of Le Corbusier’s buildings across the world represents the most comprehensive photographic archive of the architect’s work. In 2010, photographer Cemal Emden set out to document every building designed by the master architect Le Corbusier. Traveling through three continents, Emden photographed all the 52 buildings that remain standing. Each of these buildings is featured in the book and captured from multiple angles, with images revealing their exterior and interior details. Interspersed throughout the book are texts by leading architects and scholars, whose commentaries are as fascinating and varied as the buildings themselves. The book closes with an illustrated, annotated index. From the early Villa Vallet, built in Switzerland in 1905, to his groundbreaking Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, completed in 1947, this ambitious project presents the entirety and diversity of Le Corbusier’s architectural output. Visually arresting and endlessly engaging, it will appeal to the architect’s many fans, as well as anyone interested in the foundation of modern architecture.