Sinopsis

Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms is the definitive study of the Modernist master Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier by the world expert and award-winning architectural historian William J R Curtis
Second edition features four new chapters that offer fresh perspective on contemporary architectures responses to the Corbusian legacy
Lavish new photographs and a fresh redesign enhance the original
Highly praised, it documents individual projects while providing context to the architects philosophy, urban visions and art
Illustrations draw extensively from the renowned Le Corbusier archive - photographs, plans, paintings and original sketches Le Corbusier (1887-1965) has been one of the dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. But he was also a social visionary and a writer of polemics, whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy. Now fully updated with new scholarship and contemporary research, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms provides a comprehensive and unbiased survey that puts Le Corbusier in a balanced perspective and analyses his work from a contemporary context.