# Le Corbusier (World of Art)

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- Authors: [Kenneth Frampton](https://www.bookquiver.com/kenneth-frampton)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-05-16

## Description

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 Unité d’Habitation at Marseilles; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin 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 architecture historian Kenneth Frampton re-examines all the facets of his artistic and philosophical world-view in light of recent thinking, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the 21st century. This revised edition features a new introduction; some illustrations have now been replaced with colour.

## Editions

### Le Corbusier (World of Art)

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0020-488-7
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2024-05-16
- Language: en_GB