TY - BOOK AU - Frampton,Kenneth TI - Le Corbusier T2 - World of art SN - 0500203415 AV - NA1053.J4 F69 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - United States PB - Thames & Hudson, KW - Le Corbusier KW - Architecture KW - Modern KW - Local KW - 20th century KW - Architects KW - Biography KW - France N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliography; Includes bibliographical references (p.234-235)and index; Contents: Introduction 6 -- 1 The Formative Years 1887 – 1926 8 -- 2 Towards a New Architecture 1917 - 1927 20 -- 3 The City of Tomorrow 1910 - 1933 46 -- 4 Decorative Art Today 1925 - 1937 58 -- 5 A House, A Palace 1923 - 1929 70 -- 6 World Architect: Czechoslovakia, Russia, Brazil, North Africa, North America, France and Switzerland 1928 - 1936 88 -- 7 The Politics of the Unpolitical: Le Corbusier and Saint-Simonian Technocracy 1923 - 1947 116 -- 8 From Intermediate Technology to Regional Urbanization 1929 – 1946 130 -- 9 Towards a New Habitat 1922 - 1960 150 -- 10 The Sacred and the Profane: Le Corbusier and Spiritual Form 1948-1965 167 -- 11 Passage to India 1950 -1965 184 -- 12 Le Poème de I ‘Angle Droit 200 -- 13 Fin d’un Monde: The Last Works 1939-1965 214 -- Notes 230 -- Bibliography 234 -- Acknowledgments 235 -- Index 236 -- N2 - "Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes - his perennial drive towards new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Vision of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and historian Kenneth Frampton re-examines all these facets of his artistic and philosophical world-view in light of recent thinking, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the 21st century." -- ER -