The Rhetoric of Modernism - Le Corbusier as a Lecturer （2009. 240 p. 35 b/w and 120 col. ill. 270 mm）

Benton, Tim

BIRKHÄUSER BERLIN（2009発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 商品コード 9783764389444

Full Description

Beginning in the "heroic" period of the 1920s, Le Corbusier presented his work to the world in his lectures: in Paris and Rome, Geneva and Zurich, Barcelona and Brussels, Prague and Moscow, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, as well as at Columbia University in New York.

In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the arguments and strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing highlights and fuses them into an architectural conception that every advanced architectural position and practice must still come to terms with today.

After presenting the lectures in detail in a series of thematic chapters, the final third of the book reproduces five pivotal lectures from the 1920s and 1950s.

Contents

Introduction

The Corbusian Logic

Conferences on Architecture: Origins and Evolution

Conferences on Urbanism: Origins and Evolution

The Buenos Aires Conferences

5 Conferences:

Strasbourg, 1923

Lausanne, 1924

Paris, 1924

Brussels, 1926

Brussels, 1958



Indeces

Bibliography