Building the future. The man with a modern mission

Even in his unrealised projects, Le Corbusier redefined modern living, synthesising functionalism, expressionism, and expansive urban thinking from Switzerland to Chandigarh, India. This book provides a succinct introduction to his trailblazing ideas, writings, and buildings, which continue to resonate and influence to this day.

Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887–1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ideas, designs, and writings presented a whole-scale reinvention not only of individual structures but of entire concepts of modern living.

Le Corbusier’s work made distinct developments over the years, from early vernacular houses in Switzerland through dazzling white, purist villas to dynamic syntheses of art and architecture such as the chapel at Ronchamp and the civic buildings in Chandigarh, India. A hallmark throughout was his ability to combine functionalist aspirations with a strong sense of expressionism, as well as a broader and empathetic understanding of urban planning. He was a founding member of the Congrès international d’architecture moderne (CIAM), which championed “architecture as a social art.”

This book presents some of Le Corbusier’s landmark projects to introduce an architect, thinker, and modern pioneer who, even in his unrealized projects, offered discussion and inspiration for generations to come.

The author:

In 1997, the French Minister of Culture appointed Jean-Louis Cohen to create the Cité de l’architecture — a museum, research, and exhibition center in Paris’s Palais de Chaillot. Cohen’s research has focused principally on 20th-century architecture and urban planning, and his studies on German and Soviet architectural cultures. The author and curator of numerous books and exhibitions on architecture, he is an internationally acknowledged authority on Le Corbusier’s work.

The editor:

Peter Gössel runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. He has published TASCHEN monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M. Schindler, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra, as well as several titles in the Basic Architecture series.

About the series:

Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture series features:

- an introduction to the life and work of the architect 
- the major works in chronological order
- information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
- a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
- approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)

Цей широкий огляд модернізму — найяскравішої творчої епохи Парижа — охоплює всі сфери: архітектуру, мистецтво, дизайн, розваги, моду, кіно, літературу та фотографію.

Життя та творчість митців у кожній творчій дисципліні перетворили Париж на тигель сучасності у першій половині ХХ століття. Профілі вісімдесяти восьми впливових митців, дизайнерів, фотографів, архітекторів, письменників та особистостей, включаючи Габріель Шанель, Ейлін Грей, Жана Пруве, Пабло Пікассо, Тамару де Лемпіцку, Соню та Робера Делоне, Брассаї, Мана Рея, Роберта Малле-Стівенса, Шарлотту Перріан, Ле Корбюзьє, Адольфа Лооса, Вальтера Бенджаміна, Жозефіну Бейкер, Жана Ренуара, Гертруду Стайн та інших — підкреслюють безмежну творчу енергію та оптимізм, що пронизували Місто Світла на цьому ключовому історичному етапі.

Багато ілюстровані алфавітні статті з перехресними посиланнями на суміжні теми доповнюються шістьма тематичними есе про кіно, моду, графічний дизайн, житло, живопис та міське планування. Портфоліо оригінальних сучасних фотографій — від історичного центру до передмість Парижа — розкриває сліди модернізму в десятках будівель та їхніх інтер'єрах, які рідко відкриті для публіки.

Цей каталог, опублікований до виставки Power Station of Art у Шанхаї влітку 2023 року, зображує панораму людського винаходу по всьому величезному творчому ландшафту Парижа з 1914 по 1945 рік.

Про авторів:

Жан-Луї Коен — найавторитетніший французький історик архітектури ХХ століття. Він опублікував понад сорок книг, зокрема Frank Gehry: The Masterpieces (Flammarion, 2021), та курував численні архітектурні експозиції. Він є професором імені Шелдона Х. Солоу на кафедрі історії архітектури Інституту образотворчих мистецтв Нью-Йоркського університету та очолює кафедру Колеж де Франс.

Гільєметт Морель Журнель — архітекторка та урбаністка; вона опублікувала кілька книг про Ле Корбюзьє, зокрема «Віллу Савой».

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Авторитетний збірник головних шедеврів Френка Гері, що включає 480 ілюстрацій та фотографій, створений у співпраці з Cahiers d’Art.

Експериментуючи з різноманітними матеріалами, від дешевих масових виробів до титану космічної ери, та використовуючи 3D-моделювання як архітектурний інструмент, будівлі Френка Гері є вражаючими та дивовижними, об'єднаними відчуттям руху, яке вони передають. Його проекти плавно змінюють напрямки, вигинаються, згинаються та мнуться новими та несподіваними способами, підриваючи традиційні будівельні норми.

Від власного будинку в Санта-Моніці до хвилястої вежі Бекмана в Нью-Йорку, від сяючих вигинів музею Гуггенхайма в Більбао до Фонду Луї Віттона в Парижі та своєї останньої споруди Luma Arles, Гері залишив незабутній слід в історії архітектурного дизайну. Сорок найвизначніших робіт відомого архітектора представлені архітектором і критиком Жаном-Луї Коеном, а також представлені огляди інтер'єрів та екстер'єрів кожної будівлі. Цей тур включає багато робіт Гері по всій території Сполучених Штатів та за кордоном, такі як Концертний зал Волта Діснея, унікальна будівля «Бінокль» у Лос-Анджелесі та улюблений «Танцюючий будинок» у Празі.

Про авторів:

Архітектура Френка Гері мала рідкісну честь догодити критикам, науковцям та публіці. Коли в 1989 році йому було присуджено Прітцкерівську премію, журнал Vanity Fair назвав його «найважливішим архітектором нашого часу». Жан-Луї Коен — найавторитетніший французький історик архітектури ХХ століття. Він опублікував понад сорок книг і курував численні архітектурні експозиції. Він є професором імені Шелдона Х. Солоу на кафедрі історії архітектури Інституту образотворчих мистецтв Нью-Йоркського університету та обіймає посаду професора Колеж де Франс.

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Погортати книгу Frank Gehry: The Masterpieces

A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier – one of the twentieth century's most influential architects

A decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph Le Corbusier Le Grand is finally available in a new paperback edition. Documenting the life and work of one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design, the book presents an array of sketches, photographs, and correspondences, charting the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, an artist who continues to fascinate those inside and outside the architectural world.

About the Author:

Jean-Louis Cohen is undoubtedly France's most authoritative and knowledgeable historian of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. He divides his time between Paris and New York, where he is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts of NYU University.

Le Corbusier is often remembered as having been aggressively indifferent to the sites in which he placed his buildings and plans. However, new research reveals that, in keeping with his proposition that ‘the outside is always an inside’, all of Le Corbusier’s projects responded emphatically to specific geographies.

This book examines Le Corbusier’s relationship with the landscapes of five continents, in forty essays by thirty of the foremost scholars of his work.

His sketchbooks, letters and publications confirm that he was deeply involved with both optical and physical relationships to landscapes – in observing them, rendering them and building them.

From his beginnings in Switzerland, as a disciple of the regional style sapin in his hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds, to the creation of the new Indian city of Chandigarh; from touring Europe in his Avions Voisin automobile to mapping South America from the air; from inserting grand plans into existing urban layouts to setting the Ronchamp chapel on an isolated hill in France, Le Corbusier created forms that responded to the horizons and welcomed them in

A spectacular visual biography of one of the greatest architects of the 20th century.

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design. Born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the self-named Le Corbusier was not only the creator of some of the most important and impressive buildings of the last century--Villa Savoye at Poissy, the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, the Parliament Building in Chandigarh, India--he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor, furniture designer, urbanist, and author. His work and social theories continue to be a dominant force in the world of architecture and design, while his elegant bearing, typified by his round black eyeglasses, which are still today a signature look for architects around the world, helped cast him as an heroic figure out of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead.

Drawing on an array of archival material, including sketches, photographs, and correspondences, Le Corbusier Le Grand depicts in roughly chronological order not only the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, but also the major events, people, and forces that shaped the life of an artist who continues to fascinate those in and outside the architectural world.

About the authors:

Jean-Louis Cohen is undoubtedly France's most authoritative and knowledgeable historian of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. He divides his time between Paris and New York, where he is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts of NYU University.

Tim Benton, a highly regarded Le Corbusier scholar, is a Lecturer in the History of Art, Open University, Milton Keynes, England.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the leading figures of twentieth-century architecture. For architects and many others who are committed to the modernist tradition, he is a pivotal figure. With in-depth, scholarly essays and opulent photographs and plans, this book traces the multifaceted development of his work, including his first Berlin buildings, his villa projects, his work at the Bauhaus in the 1930s, and his American projects of the postwar years.

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it was not until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unité d'Habitation apartment complex in Marseilles, and the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:

* a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
* approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
* a concise biography

A spectacular visual biography of one of the greatest architects of the 20th century.

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design. Born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the self-named Le Corbusier was not only the creator of some of the most important and impressive buildings of the last century--Villa Savoye at Poissy, the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, the Parliament Building in Chandigarh, India--he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor, furniture designer, urbanist, and author. His work and social theories continue to be a dominant force in the world of architecture and design, while his elegant bearing, typified by his round black eyeglasses, which are still today a signature look for architects around the world, helped cast him as an heroic figure out of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead.

Drawing on an array of archival material, including sketches, photographs, and correspondences, Le Corbusier Le Grand depicts in roughly chronological order not only the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, but also the major events, people, and forces that shaped the life of an artist who continues to fascinate those in and outside the architectural world.

About the authors:

Jean-Louis Cohen is undoubtedly France's most authoritative and knowledgeable historian of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. He divides his time between Paris and New York, where he is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts of NYU University.

Tim Benton, a highly regarded Le Corbusier scholar, is a Lecturer in the History of Art, Open University, Milton Keynes, England.

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L’Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it wasn’t until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unité d’Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. 

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About the Series:

Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

• approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
• introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
• the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
• an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography, and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings