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Le Corbusier's "Colour Keyboards" from 1931 and 1959. 96 p. w. 150 photos and sketches. Insert: 13 sample cards with 63 colour shades.
In slipcase.
(Text: English-German-French)
In the first part of this publication, Arthur Rüegg, professor at the ETH Zurich and a Le Corbusier specialist, researches the meaning of the Salubra collection for the history of modern architecture. His extensive text is completed by source and picture material never before published, including two original texts by Le Corbusier.
The second and third part of the work feature Le Corbusier's Salubra colours themselves, making them available to the public for the first time. The 13 sample cards and the complete collection of colour plates with all 63 shades have been reproduced in true colour through a high-quality-printing process.
About the author
Arthur Rüegg, born 1942, has an architectural firm in Zurich and is a professor of architecture and construction at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich). He conducts research and publishes on contemporary Swiss architecture as well as construction, color, and furnishings in classical modernism.
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"Le Corbusiers Farbklaviaturen ... sind ... ein hervorragend aufgearbeitetes Stück Architekturgeschichte." (Christian Sumi in Kunst und Architektur in der Schweiz)
