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Le Corbusier's Practical Aesthetic of the City - The treatise 'La Construction des villes' of 1910/11 (Hardcover)
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Le Corbusier's Practical Aesthetic of the City - The treatise 'La Construction des villes' of 1910/11 (Hardcover)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis,
ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by
Le Corbusier. This volume makes the important theoretical work
available for the first time in English, offering an interpretation
as to how much and in what way his 'essai' may have influenced his
later work. Dealing with questions of aesthetic urbanism, La
Construction des Villes shows Le Corbusier's intellectual
influences in the field of urbanism. Discontent that the script was
not sufficiently avant-garde, he abandoned it soon after it was
written in the early 20th century. It was only in the late 1970s
that American historian H. Allen Brooks discovered 250 pages of the
forgotten manuscript in Switzerland. The author of this book,
Christoph Schnoor, later discovered another 350 handwritten pages
of the original manuscript, consisting of extracts, chapters, and
bibliographic notes. This splendid find enabled the
re-establishment of the manuscript as Le Corbusier had abandoned
it, unfinished, in the spring of 1911. This volume offers an
unbiased extension of our knowledge of Le Corbusier and his work.
In addition, it reminds us of the urban design innovations of the
very early 20th century which can still serve as valuable lessons
for a new understanding of contemporary urban design.
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