Le Corbusier (Archipockets Classics) by Aurora Cuito

by Aurora Cuito

Le Corbusier (Switzerland 1887-1965) set up his studio in Paris in 1922, and designed houses that could be mass-produced to conform to a new machine aesthetic incorporating his trademark five points of architecture. During World War II, he started building the Unité d'habitation, houses which were a rejection of his earlier industrial forms.

Genres: Architecture

Hardcover

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[Ruth · Rating 1 out of 5]

I left this book unimpressed. From the first page I couldn't take the volume seriously. See the cover picture associated with this book's record?-- look at it closely. See those little black spots in the white facade of the building (Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France) -- well those are the windows. Now imagine your reaction when that picture is featured on page one and in the text under it the author tells you that Le Corbusier featured "the creation of continuous windows, to take the fullest possible advantage of sunlight." That strikes me instantly as either really bad translating, really bad editing, or just bad choices. I'll give you that there is limited text in this volume, but what there is is not illuminating. If you are going to write text for something as striking as game-changing architectural images then the words you use need to matter -- these don't.

There are better books out there on Le Corbusier. Try them.