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Le Corbusier: a life
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Le Corbusier / Weber Nicholas Fox
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From an acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, this is the first full-scale life of Le Corbusier: one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded as a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings; a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture. In this first biography of the man, the author writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism-- vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. He writes about Le Corbusiers training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru, Brassai, Malraux (who championed Le Corbusiers work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris), Einstein, Matisse, the Steins, Picasso, Walter Gropius, and others. We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated governments only for the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitler and Vichy rule would bring about a marvelous transformation of society, then renounced the doomed regime and went to work for Charles de Gaulle and his provisional government. Also included are Le Corbusiers fraught relationships with women (he remained celibate until the age of twenty-four and then often went to prostitutes); his twenty-seven-year-long marriage to a woman who had no interest in architecture and forbade it being discussed at the dinner table; his numerous love affairs during his marriage, including his shipboard romance with the twenty-three-year-old Josephine Baker, already a legend in Paris, whom he saw as a pure and guileless soul. She saw him as irresistibly funny. What a shame youre an architect, she wrote. Youd have made such a good partner. A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived.

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CONTENTS For Nancy In his highest flights musi - photo 1

CONTENTS For Nancy In his highest flights musical and architectural - photo 2

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For Nancy

In his highest flights, musical and architectural above all, for they are one, man gives the illusion of rivalling the order, the majesty and the splendor of the heavens.

HENRY MILLER, The Colossus of Maroussi

ILLUSTRATIONS

Looking out from 20 rue Jacob, mid-1920s. Courtesy Jean-Pierre and Nama Jornod

Marie Charlotte Amlie Jeanneret-Perret, Le Corbusiers mother, at about the age of ninety-eight. Fondation Le Corbusier

Photo taken by Robert Doisneau in 1944. R. Doisneau/Rapho/Eyedea

Military honor guard at Le Corbusiers funeral service in the Cour Carre du Louvre, September 2, 1965. Photo AFP

Entering the sea at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, August 1965. Fondation Le Corbusier

Le Corbusiers casket entering the Cour Carre du Louvre, September 2, 1965. Courtesy Archive Photos

Andr Malraux giving his homily at Le Corbusiers funeral service. Courtesy Archive Photos

Le Corbusier and Andr Malraux laying the cornerstone for the Assembly Building in Chandigarh in 1952. Fondation Le Corbusier

Yvonne, late 1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

Yvonne (in duck mask), late 1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

Sketch of a femur by Le Corbusier. Fondation Le Corbusier

Drawing of Georges-Edouard Jeanneret made on the night he died. Fondation Le Corbusier

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret with his family (December 1889). Fondation Le Corbusier

Edouard, age three, and Albert, age five (1890). Fondation Le Corbusier

Marie Charlotte and Georges-Edouard Jeanneret, ca. 1900. Courtesy Jean-Pierre and Nama Jornod

Charles LEplattenier, ca. 1905. Courtesy Jean-Pierre and Nama Jornod

With his parents and Albert in the family apartment in La Chaux-de-Fonds, ca. 1905. Fondation Le Corbusier

With Albert in La Chaux-de-Fonds, ca. 1905. Fondation Le Corbusier

In Paris, ca. 1908. Fondation Le Corbusier

Dressed as a rapin in his garret at 9 rue des Ecoles, Paris (19081909). Fondation Le Corbusier

With Albert at 3 quai Saint-Michel, 1908. Fondation Le Corbusier

Self-portrait drawing as the Grand Condor, on a postcard to his parents, Christmas 1909. Courtesy Jean-Pierre and Nama Jornod

With his parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1909. Fondation Le Corbusier

Portrait of William Ritter by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. Fondation Le Corbusier

Self-portrait in a letter to his parents, June 29, 1910. Fondation Le Corbusier

Sketch showing a view of the Acropolis, September 1911. Fondation Le Corbusier

Resting on a column of the Parthenon, September 1911. Fondation Le Corbusier

At the Acropolis, September 1911. Fondation Le Corbusier

Auguste Klipstein and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret performing the dance of Salom in Pera (Istanbul), July 1911. Fondation Le Corbusier

At Le Couvent in La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1912. Fondation Le Corbusier

The Villa Jeanneret-Perret, also called the Maison Blanche, in the snow, ca. 1912. Fondation Le Corbusier

With his father in the garden of the Villa Jeanneret-Perret, ca. 1916. Fondation Le Corbusier

With his parents and brother in the garden of the Villa Jeanneret-Perret, ca. 1916. Fondation Le Corbusier

At 20 rue Jacob, late 1920s. Photo by Brassa. Estate BrassaRMN, gestion droits dauteur F.L.C./ADAGP

Portrait of Amde Ozenfant by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, ca. 1920. Fondation Le Corbusier

Letter to his parents, with the menu of his banquet for Ozenfant prepared during World War I. Fondation Le Corbusier

Letter to his brother, June 1918. Fondation Le Corbusier

In his apartment at 20 rue Jacob, just prior to his show at THOMAS Tableaux, December 1918. Fondation Le Corbusier

With Ozenfant and Albert Jeanneret, August 1919. Fondation Le Corbusier

Exterior of Ozenfants studio and residence in Paris, 1924. Fondation Le Corbusier

Interior of Ozenfants studio. Fondation Le Corbusier

Pastor Huguenin, Lotti and Albert Jeanneret, Pierre Jeanneret, and Le Corbusier at Lotti and Alberts wedding ceremony, June 26, 1923. Fondation Le Corbusier

Facade of the Villa La Roche, ca. 1925. Fondation Le Corbusier

Raoul La Roche with his collection, ca. 1925. Fondation Le Corbusier

Master bedroom of the Villa La Roche, known as the Purist Bedroom. Fondation Le Corbusier

At 20 rue Jacob, mid-1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

Ca. 1920. Fondation Le Corbusier

In front of the diagram of the Plan Voisin, 1925. Fondation Le Corbusier

Driving a Fiat on the roof track of the Lingotto factory in Turin, mid-1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

Exterior of the Pavilion de LEsprit Nouveau, Paris, 1925. Fondation Le Corbusier

At Pessac, ca. 1926. Fondation Le Corbusier

With Yvonne at a masked ball, late 1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

Letter to his mother, July 5, 1926. Fondation Le Corbusier

With his mother in the Villa Le Lac, late 1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

With Pierre Jeanneret at Le Piquey, late 1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

With Yvonne in Le Piquey, ca. 1930. Fondation Le Corbusier

With his mother and her dog Nora in Vevey, ca. 1930. Fondation Le Corbusier

Drawing of different ways of sitting, ca. 1928. Fondation Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, and others at the Salon dAutomne, Paris, 1922. Photo by Pierre Jeanneret. Archives Perriand, Paris

Charlotte Perriand resting on the LC4 Lounge Chair. Fondation Le Corbusier

Club Chair, 1928. Fondation Le Corbusier

Villa Steinde Monzie in Garches, during construction, 19271928. Fondation Le Corbusier

Villa Steinde Monzie in Garches, front facade, 1928. Fondation Le Corbusier

El Lissitzky, Mondrian, and other visitors to the Villa Steinde Monzie, late 1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

Sketch of his fathers tomb in a letter to his mother, May 3, 1927. Fondation Le Corbusier

Pierre Jeanneret, Andr Bauchant, Yvonne, and Le Corbusier standing with a painting by Bauchant of the four of them, early 1930s. Fondation Le Corbusier

On the building site of the Centrosoyuz in Moscow, 1930. Fondation Le Corbusier

With Sergei Eisenstein and Andrej Burow in Moscow, October 1928. Archives: Cabinet EjzenstejnMoscow

With Pierre Jeanneret and Lotti Jeanneret in the late 1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

The Villa Savoye, shortly after construction, ca. 1930. Fondation Le Corbusier

On vacation at Le Piquey, late 1920s. Fondation Le Corbusier

With Josephine Baker aboard the Giulio Cesare en route to So Paulo via Montevideo, November 1929. Fondation Le Corbusier

Drawing of drinking Neuchtel wine, Rio, Copacabana Bay, 1929. Fondation Le Corbusier

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