Toward an Architecture

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Louis Cohen (1949-2023) authored over 30 books on architectural history and was a preeminent authority on Le Corbusier. John Goodman is a translator and art historian. He has rendered some thirty books from French into English. Klappentext Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

Product details

• Authors: L. Corbusier, Le Corbusier, A. Le Corbusier, A01 Le Corbusier, Jean-Louis (INT)/ Goodman Le Courbusier/ Cohen
• Assisted by: John Goodman (Translation)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2007
• EAN: 9780892368228
• ISBN: 978-0-89236-822-8
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 258 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Getty Research Institute; Getty Research Institute
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture