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Le Corbusier : béton brut and ineffable space, 1940-1965 : surface materials and psychophysiology of vision / Roberto Gargiani, Anna Rosellini ; translated from the Italian by Stephan Piccolo.

By: Gargiani, Roberto, 1956-.
Contributor(s): Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 | Rosellini, Anna.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Essays in architecture.Publisher: Abingdon, Oxford [England] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011Description: 590 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9782940222506 (EPFL Press); 9780415681711 (Routledge : hardback : alk. paper).Other title: Béton brut and ineffable space, 1940-1965 | Surface materials and psychophysiology of vision.Subject(s): Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation | Building materialsDDC classification: 720.92 COR
Contents:
The discovery of béton brut with malfaçons : the worksite of the Unité d'habitation at Marseille -- Acrobat training : the provocateur of new forms -- Unités d'habitation at Reé-Lès-Nantes, Berlin, and Briey-en-Forêt -- Chandigarh, or the cosmic vision -- Brutal skin in pisé, brick, and wood -- Machines à habiter for tropical visions and climates -- Automatisms and projections of sounds and images -- Toward a new stereotomy.
Summary: This groundbreaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It is innovative in showing the role of materials and construction techniques in the architecture of Le Corbusier and the book also delves into the project management and the construction of several buildings in the period 1940 - 1965. Each worksite, from the Unité d'Habitation (Housing Unit) in Marseille to the city of Chandigarh, and the Tokyo museum, the Carpenter Center in Cambridge and the Unité d'Habitation in Berlin, is analyzed in detail.
Holdings
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General Lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 720.92 COR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 19/02/2024 00158876
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This groundbreaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It is innovative in showing the role of materials and construction techniques in the architecture of Le Corbusier and the book also delves into the project management and the construction of several buildings in the period 1940 1965. Each worksite, from the Unite d Habitation (Housing Unit) in Marseille to the city of Chandigarh, and the Tokyo museum, the Carpenter Center in Cambridge and the Unite d'Habitation in Berlin, is analyzed in detail.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The discovery of béton brut with malfaçons : the worksite of the Unité d'habitation at Marseille -- Acrobat training : the provocateur of new forms -- Unités d'habitation at Reé-Lès-Nantes, Berlin, and Briey-en-Forêt -- Chandigarh, or the cosmic vision -- Brutal skin in pisé, brick, and wood -- Machines à habiter for tropical visions and climates -- Automatisms and projections of sounds and images -- Toward a new stereotomy.

This groundbreaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It is innovative in showing the role of materials and construction techniques in the architecture of Le Corbusier and the book also delves into the project management and the construction of several buildings in the period 1940 - 1965. Each worksite, from the Unité d'Habitation (Housing Unit) in Marseille to the city of Chandigarh, and the Tokyo museum, the Carpenter Center in Cambridge and the Unité d'Habitation in Berlin, is analyzed in detail.

UCC fund.

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Le Corbusier is considered by many to be the leading architect of modern architecture. Born of Swiss parentage near Geneva, but a lifelong Parisian by choice, he started his practice in 1922. In 1923 he published his startling manifesto of what he called "the aesthetics of modern life," Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture). Le Corbusier worked first at simplifying and liberating house design through the revolutionary use of new materials---particularly, reinforced concrete---and new technical ideas for mass production, which he applied in the so-called Dom-Ino and the Citrohan House. In his widely influential book La Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City) (1935), he laid down his urban planning ideas:a city of high-rise buildings set among trees and grass. His designs for large building groups proved to be as influential as his domestic designs had been. These include the famous housing project in Marseilles (the Unite d'Habitation), his League of Nations project in Geneva (unexecuted), and, toward the end of his life, the startling designs for the capital city of Punjab, Chandigarh. He also participated---controversially---in the designs for the U.N. headquarters in New York. In his last years, Le Corbusier turned away from the geometry and pure logic of his first designs and adopted sculptural and dramatic forms, as in Chandigarh. The almost mystical complexities of Le Corbusier's Pilgrim Church of Ronchamps in the French Jura opened another chapter in the history of twentieth-century architecture. (Bowker Author Biography)

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