Le Corbusier : drawing as process / Danièle Pauly ; translated by Genevieve Hendricks.

Le Corbusier : drawing as process / Danièle Pauly ; translated by Genevieve Hendricks.

Corbusier et le dessin. English

9780300230994 (hardcover)
0300230990 (hardcover)

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

English

303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

NC248.J4 P38 2018

724.6

"Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (1887-1965), is famous for transforming twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Less attention has been paid to his artistic production, although he began his career as a painter. Le Corbusier indeed studied under Charles L'Ésplattenier and, together with the artist Amédée Ozenfant, founded the Purist movement in the manifesto After Cubism. Even after Le Corbusier turned to architecture, he continued to paint and draw. His thousands of drawings, rarely exhibited but meticulously stored in two watch cabinets from his family home, were particularly significant; he considered his work as a draftsman to be fundamental to his creative process. Beautifully illustrated with more than 300 drawings that have never before been published for an English readership, this revealing book charts the evolution of Le Corbusier's process from his youthful travels abroad to his arrival and maturation in Paris"--Back cover.

"Originally published as "Ce labeur secret": Le Corbusier et le dessin. Copyright © Fage éditions, Lyon, 2015; © Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, 2015"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-299) and index.

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