Description
This special commemorative issue takes stock of the variety of approaches of a new generation of scholars with respect to the work of the distinguished and worldly architect. It covers Le Corbusier’s universe as presented through the geography of his travels, threading together his personal universe based on the very landscapes his projects inhabit, from Switzerland, France, Italy, and Spain, to India, the Americas and beyond. It presents a representative selection of works which portray the intellectual and artistic realm of one of the greatest architectural visionaries of the 20th century, gathering historical materials and images along with essays by Jean-Louis Cohen and others.
CONTENTS
- Luis Fernández-Galiano, Biographic Geographies
- Jean-Louis Cohen, In the Cause of Landscape
Switzerland
- Stanislaus von Moos, Lake Geneva and the Alps: Framing the Panorama
Italy
- Jean-Louis Cohen, Rome: A Lesson in Urban Landscape
Spain
- Juan José Lahuerta, Spain: Traveling to See the Already Seen
France
- Barry Bergdoll, Paris: Beyond the Nineteenth-Century City
- Tim Benton, Marseille: Unité d’Habitation, a Geography
- Josep Quetglas, Ronchamp: A Landscape of Visual Acoustics
Africa
- Antoine Picon, Algiers: City, Infrastructure and Landscape
America
- Jorge Francisco Liernur, Argentina: the Geographical Gaze
- Carlos Eduardo Comas, Brazil: Three Cities, Three Landscapes
Asia
- Maristella Casciato, Chandigarh: Landscaping a New Capital
100 pages, ills colour & bw / 24 x 30 cm / English, Spanish
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