Le Corbusier, the noble savage : toward an archaeology of modernism / Adolf Max Vogt ; translated by Radka Donnell.
1998
NA1053.J4 V6413 1998eb
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Le Corbusier, the noble savage : toward an archaeology of modernism / Adolf Max Vogt ; translated by Radka Donnell.
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Le Corbusier, der edle Wilde. English
ISBN
0262367955 (electronic bk.)
9780262367950 (electronic bk.)
0262220563
9780262220569
0262720337
9780262720335
9780262367950 (electronic bk.)
0262220563
9780262220569
0262720337
9780262720335
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 365 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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NA1053.J4 V6413 1998eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
720/.92
Summary
This revelatory study is the most unexpected and vital piece of Le Corbusier scholarship to appear in years. Adolf Max Vogt looks to the early, formative years of the architect's life as a key to understanding his mature practice, taking aim at such fundamental riddles as "Where did his design vocabulary come from?" and "How was his aesthetic sense formed?"
Vogt's investigation of LC's early life and education not only reveals important, previously unacknowledged influences on specific projects such as the League of Nations headquarters and the Villa Savoye, but also suggests why LC throughout his career preferred to lift buildings above the ground, to give them the appearance of "floating." This tendency had decisive consequences for buildings associated with the modern movement and continues to influence architecture today.
By uncovering crucial dimensions of LC's early life and resurrecting primary documents and source materials overlooked by other scholars, this book changes the face of LC studies.
Vogt's investigation of LC's early life and education not only reveals important, previously unacknowledged influences on specific projects such as the League of Nations headquarters and the Villa Savoye, but also suggests why LC throughout his career preferred to lift buildings above the ground, to give them the appearance of "floating." This tendency had decisive consequences for buildings associated with the modern movement and continues to influence architecture today.
By uncovering crucial dimensions of LC's early life and resurrecting primary documents and source materials overlooked by other scholars, this book changes the face of LC studies.
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Vogt's investigation of LC's early life and education not only reveals important, previously unacknowledged influences on specific projects such as the League of Nations headquarters and the Villa Savoye, but also suggests why LC throughout his career preferred to lift buildings above the ground, to give them the appearance of "floating." This tendency had decisive consequences for buildings associated with the modern movement and continues to influence architecture today.
By uncovering crucial dimensions of LC's early life and resurrecting primary documents and source materials overlooked by other scholars, this book changes the face of LC studies.
By uncovering crucial dimensions of LC's early life and resurrecting primary documents and source materials overlooked by other scholars, this book changes the face of LC studies.
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