Published by Verlag Dr. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Jacket has heavy wear plus some tears and losses mainly to spine. Some small tears to cloth at ends of spine. Foxing to preliminaries and last couple of pages. Minor foxing to upper margin of other pages. Name, date and place to ffep. Text and plates clean. Binding sound. A servicable reading copy.
Text in German, French and English. OU, OU etw. Le Corbusier d. Used - Hardcover Condition: gut. Condition: gut. Oktober in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Schweiz; Er war einer der einflussreichsten Architekten des Willy Boesiger geb. Mai in Langenthal; gest. Boesiger studierte nach einer Berufslehre als Bauzeichner bei Hector Egger am Technikum Burgdorf, wo er diplomierte. Cover slightly discoloured along extremities. Blank endpaper with owner's entry.
Le Corbusier. Girsberger Original Leinen. Erste Ausgabe. Vorbesitzername auf Vorsatzblatt. Gutes Exemplar. Published by Editions Girsberger, From France to U. Couverture rigide. Herausgegeben von Willy Boesiger, Hans Girsberger. Seller: adr. Hardcover, dust jacket, Oblong, 4to, white linen covered boards. A one-volume compendium of the complete works of Le Corbusier. No name or other markings. The rather rare first edition of volume 7 of the "complete works.
The dustjacket has imperfections as described above. Girsberger,, Mit zahlr. Erste Ausgabe,zugleich die zweite Serie Serie eins umfasst die Jahre - Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: OU, OU etwas randrissig u. Published by Editions H. This eye resembles Quomodo Deum Fig. I am a stupid ass, but one who has an eye that sees I am and I remain an impenitent visionary In one place he drew a Sun and Moon fused together, in a hermaphroditic way Fig.
These are just a little taste of his esoteric language. Now it is time to see what this impenitent visionary has accomplished with his occult powers. From his early period of Cubism, Le Corbusier has been searching for the ideal form. Maison Dom-Ino Fig. The reinforced concrete structure reduces the load-bearing system into columns and beams to free the walls from its traditional function so that the plan is open and unrestrained.
However, such structure notion has been realized in the Hennebique System Fig. But Le Corbusier refused to adopt it. In fact, his own design was more arduous as shown in his drawings, because the inner structure of the slab is made of bricks Fig. This whole book suggests such connection. It is an aesthetic choice. But why did he so eagerly search for the ideal forms? An indefinable trace of the Absolute which lies in the depths of our being.
This is indeed the axis on which man is organized in perfect accord with nature and probably with the universe, this axis of organization which must indeed be that on which all phenomena and all objects of nature are based; this axis leads us to assume a unity of conduct in the universe and to admit a single will behind it.
In alchemical sense, the axis is the caduceus of the divine Mercurius, the central line where the universe and the individual meet each other. From Ville Contemporaine , his early concept in urban planning of a contemporary city for three million of inhabitants, to the Plan Voisin for Paris and to the La Ville Radieuse , his urban plans have been a series of unrealized reveries Fig.
But few recognized that meditation was one significant motive behind his plans. But why does this sense of silence and solitude so important for a city plan while so many issues could be addressed?
The answer is that he had a spiritual agenda behind. He was not aiming at a thriving urban center, or simply solving the urban congestion resulted by the increasing population, but creating a gigantic Hermetic monastery. The Modulor. The purpose was to unite the foot-inch and metric systems of measurement. Le Corbusier introduced Modulor as the solution of the conflict. As Moore indicates, the Modulor man resembles the Rebis, the Child of the Work in alchemical opus magnum, holding in his hands a compass and a set square or a right angle Fig.
In the book The Modulor Le Corbusier discussed an almost metaphysical level of architectural design, using the compass and the set square or right angle. Plus, in a symbolic way, the spiral interlocking of the two Fibonacci sequences of the Modulor scale could represent the caduceus of Mercurius Fig.
We must rediscover the straight line wedding the axis of fundamental laws: biology, nature, cosmos. It was a government-sponsored project; there was no regulation, no budget limit, no restraint at all.
This is the place he could realize his urban idea and the Modulor. Many architectural and technical aspects deserve close attention, but the focus falls on the whole idea behind it. This container is an entity like a bottle. What kind of bottle? What is the value of it? The bottle he had in mind was the laboratory glassware. And this goes back to his earlier notion of urban plans and meditation.
This project is the experiment of that idea. This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. Published between and , in close collaboration with Le Corbusier himself, and frequently reprinted ever since, the eight volumes comprise an exhaustive and singular survey of his work. This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings.
It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier's details were expressive of his overall philosophical intentions. It is not a construction book in the usual sense- rather it focusses on the. This title, from a well-regarded and established expert, explores the changing relationship between the poetic intentions and technical means of environmental design in architecture.
Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, these essays reach beyond the narrow conventional view of the purely technical to encompass. At the time, the new building was being constructed, Le Corbusier was not interested in Machine Age architecture; he felt that his style was more primitive and sculptural.
He realized when he visited the site that he could not use mechanized means of construction, because access was too difficult. The building is considered to be one of the most influential and important buildings of the twentieth century.
This is because it represents a key shift away from the functionalist form of Modernism that influenced Le Corbusier in the earlier designs.
Figure 2: Floor plan 8. Thick masonry walls compose the main structure. These walls are curved to increase and improve stability and to also provide structural support.
The vast curved roof is made of concrete and is supported by columns which are hidden within the walls. The exterior of the chapel suggests a complicated layout but, the interior is actually pretty simple in plan.
Smaller chapels are created within the plan by three thick white walls which curve inwards from the outside. Two of these smaller chapels sit on either side of the north entrance and one is found on the south-east corner, beside the main entrance.
One of the chapels is painted a bright red colour and the sacristy on the north side is painted violet. The floor of the building is sloped to follow the site. The windows are scattered irregularly across the walls.
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