Le Corbusier
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965), was an architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America.
Works
- Selection
- Villa Fallet, Switzerland, 1905
- Villa Stotzer, Switzerland, 1907
- Villa La Roche, Paris, France, 1923
- Villas at Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart, Germany, 1927
- Tsentrosoyuz, Moscow, Russia, 1928
- Maison Errazuriz, Chile, 1930
- Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, 1949
- United Nations headquarters, New York City, 1952
- Mill Owners' Association Building, Ahmedabad, India, 1951
- National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1957
- Philips Pavilion at the World Expositon Brussels, Belgium, 1958
- Center for Electronic Calculus, Olivetti, Milan, Italy, 1961
- Church of Saint-Pierre, Firminy, Firminy, France, designed in 1960, built posthumously and completed under José Oubrerie's guidance, 2006
Literature
- By Corbusier
- Étude sur le mouvement d’art décoratif en Allemagne (Study of the decorative art movement in Germany), 1912. (in French)
- Vers une architecture, 1923. (in French)
- L'Urbanisme, 1924.
- Towards a New Architecture, 1931; 1986.
- Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches. Voyage au pays des timides, Plon, Paris 1937
- When the Cathedrals Were White, trans. Francis E. Hyslop, Jr., McGraw-Hili Book Company, 1964
- Les Trois établissements humains, Paris, 1945
- Os Tres Estabelecimentos Humanos, transl. Dora Maria de Aguiar Whitaker, Editora Perspectiva, Sao Paulo, 1979 (in Portughese)
- El Modulor 1, Ensayo sobreuna media armonica..., vol. 1, Edtorial Poseidon, Buenos Aires, 1953 (Spanish)
- El Modulor 2, Ensayo sobreuna media armonica..., vol. 2, Edtorial Poseidon, Buenos Aires, 1962 (Spanish)
- El viaje de Oriente, 1984; 1993. (in Spanish) [1]
- Analisis de la Forma, 1984. (in Spanish) [2]
- Willy Boesiger, Oscar Stonorov, Max Bill (eds.), Le Corbusier - Oeuvre complete, vol. 1 (1910-1929), Vol. 2 (1929-1934), Vol. 3 (1934-1938), Vol. 4 (1938-1946), Vol. 5 (1946-1952), Vol. 6 (1952-1957), Vol. 7 (1957-1965), Vol. 8 (1965-1969) (French, English and German Edition), 1990-.
- On Corbusier
- Jacques Lucan, Le Corbusier - Une Encyclopedie, 1987 (in French)
- Curtis, William J.R., Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms, Phaidon, 1994
- Frampton, Kenneth, Le Corbusier, London, Thames and Hudson, 2001
- Eliel, Carol S., L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918 - 1925. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002
- Flora Samuel, Le Corbusier in Detail, 2007
- http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79183