Towards a New Architecture, Paperback - Le Corbusier

Reducere. For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887 1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted...

Reducere. In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier's prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as ar...

Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this profusely illustrated study, a noted furniture designer brings together more than 40 examples of chairs that combine practicalit...

Reducere. This book is a revised and extended version of the article that I wrote and published in 1996, 22 years ago now, which for some time I have felt th...

Reducere. Between 1945 and 1967, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) planned and built five "Unit s d'habitation" in Marseille, Rez , Berlin, Briey-en-For t and Firminy...

Revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive study of Le Corbusier

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This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building on foundational idea...

This first anthology of women's international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to mid...

Description"The truth is, decorative art is equipment, beautiful equipment, " Le Corbusier, L'Art decoratif d'aujourd'hui This book traces the hist...

This unique appraisal of the famous Swiss architect's major works have now been expanded to include two more building. The Villa Shodhan and the Pa...

DescriptionFrom the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect of the t...

In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor." Based on the Golden Section and Fibonac...

Reducere. Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philoso...

DescriptionTheodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of "critical theory, " Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the E...

An exploration of the friendship between Italian artist Costatino Nivola and Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, and of the evolution of Le Corbus...

Reducere. Cartea are forma unui interviu cu 30 de intrebari pe care i Nelu Stratone i le adreseaza lui Costin Petrescu. Iar in raspunsurile sale, Costin Petr...

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and...

Le Corbusiers development was inextricably connected to the rise of the centurys popular visual medium: photography. This book traces the many ways...

Description"Each day of my life has been dedicated in part to drawing. I have never stopped drawing and painting, seeking, where I could find them,...

Through the process of redrawing the plans of a wide range of completed projects by Le Corbusier, this book offers a new interpretation of his arch...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John SeedAuthor: Joanna MacyThinking Like a Mountain provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environm...

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Reducere. This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 20...

Focussing on 1930-60, this publicationconsiders Pasmore's transition from figurative painter to abstract artist. Reproducing works from both public...

This series of linked essays explores the crafts in education, in history and literature, in the contemporary arts landscape, in the digital age, a...

Le Corbusier is a Modernist icon whose buildings and theories have influenced structures the world over. Now you can create 10 of his most importan...

Pioneering study offering a 'new comparatism' - a new world-systems' approach to the 'world' in 'world literature'.Publisher: Liverpool University ...

Tells the story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Punjab's capital, Chandigarh. This title traces the cultural preconceptions and i...

Examines the emergence and practice of a Western model of intervention, which combines 'hard'/military and 'soft'/peace approaches, and assesses it...

DescriptionCombining a fascinating, thought-provoking and - above all - readable text with over 800 photographs, plans, and sections, this exciting...

DescriptionLe Corbusier s Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut is one of the most unique and surprising religious buildings of the 20th century. In Roncham...

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the c...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Virginia SeaseIllustration(s): halftonesTranslator: Matthew BartonNumber of pages: 112Publication date...

Reducere. In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the...

Reducere. Le Corbusier gave to modern design a sure and brilliant sense of form; Mies brought an almost Gothic discipline of structure; and Wright heralded a...

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Reducere. Of all the world's great cities, perhaps none is so defined by its Art Deco architecture as New York. Lively and informative, New York Art Deco lea...

A cross-disciplinary tour-de-force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural...

Reducere. Rudolf Steiner gave thousands of lectures in his lifetime, usually without notes, and, with very few exceptions, with nothing more than chalk and a...

An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the ...

Reducere. Essential reading for both native New Yorkers and tourists alike, How to Read New York unveils the boundless diversity of Gotham's architectural wo...

This text provides an innovative approach to the pedagogy of contemporary planning processes within different cultural contexts. It has a multi-dis...

Media philosopher Vil m Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, s...

Reducere. The on-screen offerings of Hollywood and Europe have colored the popular perspective of cinema- What it is and what it should be- to such a great e...

Reducere. "Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon--the c...

Reducere. It's easy to blame the difficulties theatre now faces on the longest shutdown of stages since the mid-seventeenth century. But these problems began...