Exploring how Le Corbusier came to create the groundbreaking ideas, buildings and designs that changed the course of 20th-century architecture, this book presents his oeuvre in relation to the revolutionary global developments of the 20th century. Not since Palladio had anyone exercised such immense influence on architectural practice. Through buildings, urban projects, paintings, sculptures, drawings, furniture designs and publications, Le Corbusier developed a unique poetics of machine and metaphor, revolutionizing the way people see, use and make architecture.
- ISBN10 0500283192
- ISBN13 9780500283196
- Publish Date 21 January 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English