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Product Description: "Towards a New Architecture" by Le Corbusier is THE classic book advocating for and exploring the concept of modern architecture. It has had an undeniable lasting effect on the architectural profession, serving as the manifesto for a generation of architects and unquestionably a critical piece of architectural theory...read more
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9781466216396 | Createspace, August 13, 2011, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: "Towards a New Architecture" by Le Corbusier is THE classic book advocating for and exploring the concept of modern architecture.
9780486250236 | Dover Pubns, February 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This pioneering proclamation by the great architect expounds Le Corbusier's technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, the relation of form to function, "mass-production spirit," and much more.
9780750606271 | Butterworth Architecture, January 1, 1970, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: In 'Vers une Architecture', published in 1923, Le Corbusier equates the pure forms of the machine with the pure forms of the Parthenon to illustrate his view of architecture as a question of mass rather than facades, and that machines are highly architectural.

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9781580932905 | Monacelli Pr, September 28, 2010, cover price $85.00

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Shares the influential architect's account of a 1911 trip through central and eastern Europe and includes sketches he made along the way
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9780262120913 | Mit Pr, July 1, 1987, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Shares the influential architect's account of a 1911 trip through central and eastern Europe and includes sketches he made along the way

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9780262620680, titled "Journey to the East" | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, August 1, 1989), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Shares the influential architect's account of a 1911 trip through central and eastern Europe and includes sketches he made along the way

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By Le Corbusier (not applicable)
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9783764372255 | Bilingual edition (Actar-D, April 30, 2007), cover price $115.00

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Product Description: Partiendo de un enfoque general de las motivaciones que conformaron la arquitectura moderna, Le Corbusier desarrolla lo que llama ‘ la adquisición de un instrumental". Analizando paso a paso, los distintos problemas del urbanismo: uso de la tierra...read more
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9789879393116 | Italian edition edition (Ediciones Infinito, September 14, 2006), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Partiendo de un enfoque general de las motivaciones que conformaron la arquitectura moderna, Le Corbusier desarrolla lo que llama ‘ la adquisición de un instrumental".

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Illustrated with original drawings from the author, an essential guide helps architecture students who are going into the discipline for the first time.
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9789879637036 | Ediciones Infinito, May 26, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Illustrated with original drawings from the author, an essential guide helps architecture students who are going into the discipline for the first time.

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Product Description: Although Le Corbusier never explicitly defined his concept of self, Richards finds extensive evidence of it in the urbanist's writings and work. Richards argues that Le Corbusier was indebted to Enlightenment philosopher Blaise Pascal, who believed the individual should withdraw from society and meditate in solitude on the nature of God and self...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780300095654 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Although Le Corbusier never explicitly defined his concept of self, Richards finds extensive evidence of it in the urbanist's writings and work.

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Product Description: In his numerous writings, Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career. This text examines his nascent years as a designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922 - the year he changed his name from Charles Edouard Jeanneret and established his identity as Le Corbusier...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780300093575 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In his numerous writings, Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career.

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Product Description: Le Corbusier, the brilliant architect of the 20th century, always carried along a sketchbook, a kind of diary in which, observing the "grand tour" tradition and the "fads" of famous 19th-century travellers, he amassed observations, calculations, drawings of works and designs, and carefully jotted down his meetings, experiences and reflections...read more
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9781904313069 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, June 24, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Le Corbusier, the brilliant architect of the 20th century, always carried along a sketchbook, a kind of diary in which, observing the "grand tour" tradition and the "fads" of famous 19th-century travellers, he amassed observations, calculations, drawings of works and designs, and carefully jotted down his meetings, experiences and reflections.

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Product Description: Le Corbusier's notebooks pertaining to his German travels precede those of the "Orient", spanning the period from April to May 1911. His travels in Germany, visiting Munich, Berlin, Halle, Naumburg, Ratisbon and Augsburg, enabled Le Corbusier to meet personalities who would have a profound influence on him: among others Theodore Fischer, representing the most nonconformist trend in German architecture, Baron Gunther von Pechmann, William Ritter, a critic and a man of letters, and lastly Peter Behrens...read more
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9781904313076 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, June 24, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Le Corbusier's notebooks pertaining to his German travels precede those of the "Orient", spanning the period from April to May 1911.

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Product Description: No other architect since Palladio has exercised such an immense influence as Le Corbusier. As with Einstein and Picasso, Le Corbusier made an impact that was felt within but also outside his special discipline. Through numerous buildings, urban projects, paintings, sculptures, drawings, and publications, he succeeded to develop a unique poetics of machine and metaphor, revolutionizing the way people see, use, and make architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780789306340 | Universe Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: No other architect since Palladio has exercised such an immense influence as Le Corbusier.

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Focuses on lesser-known aspects of the Swiss-French architect's career to examine his domestic interiors and furnishings, combining archival photography and sketches to analyze such creations as the Espirit Nouveau pavilion and the Le Corbusier studio-created chaise longue. (view table of contents)
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9781580930765 | Monacelli Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Focuses on lesser-known aspects of the Swiss-French architect's career to examine his domestic interiors and furnishings, combining photographs and sketches to analyze his creations.

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Product Description: Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier dominated twentieth-century architecture much the way Picasso dominated painting. His outstanding achievements, his vision of a harmonious machine civilization, his paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, city planning, and writing together compose a portrait of the architect as "protean creator...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781580930772 | Monacelli Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier dominated twentieth-century architecture much the way Picasso dominated painting.

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Product Description: In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor". Based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, Modulor is a sequence of measurements which Le Corbusier used to achieve harmony in his architectural compositions...read more
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9783764361884 | Actarbirkhauser, May 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor".

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Product Description: In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor". Based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, Modulor is a sequence of measurements which Le Corbusier used to achieve harmony in his architectural compositions...read more
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9783764361877 | Birkhauser, May 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor".

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Product Description: First published in France in 1943 and translated for English-speaking readers in 1961, Le Corbusier Talks with Students presents advice and commentary from the master of modernism for young architects-to-be.In chapters ranging from "Disorder" to "The Construction of Dwellings" to "A Research Workshop," Le Corbusier discusses his views on architectural history and offers opinions on the future of the profession, while touching on his own projects for the Villa Savoye, the Cit Universitaire, and the Radiant City...read more
By Pierre Chase (trans) and Le Corbusier
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9781568981963 | Princeton Architectural Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: First published in France in 1943 and translated for English-speaking readers in 1961, Le Corbusier Talks with Students presents advice and commentary from the master of modernism for young architects-to-be.

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Product Description: This study of Le Corbusier's oeuvre looks at the early, formative years of the architect's life as a key to understanding his mature practice, and to solving such fundamental questions as "where did his design vocabulary come from?", and "how was his aesthetic sense formed?"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780262220569 | Mit Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This study of Le Corbusier's oeuvre looks at the early, formative years of the architect's life as a key to understanding his mature practice, and to solving such fundamental questions as "where did his design vocabulary come from?

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Product Description: Essential Le Corbusier brings together in one volume the three main books in the Architectural Press Le Corbusier series: Towards a New Architecture; The Decorative Art of Today and The City of Tomorrow. These classic texts provide architects and students of architecture with the information they need about Le Corbusier and his works in one, complete, highly illustrated volume...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780750641388 | Butterworth Architecture, October 1, 1998, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Essential Le Corbusier brings together in one volume the three main books in the Architectural Press Le Corbusier series: Towards a New Architecture; The Decorative Art of Today and The City of Tomorrow.

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9783931317409 | Art Books Intl Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: Le Corbusier, one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, died in 1965 only weeks after completing "Mise au point", his last opus in the form of autobiographical reflections. Published posthumously, "Mise au point" is a curious and cryptic text, yet it sheds an light on the artist's mind and temperament...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780300063530 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Le Corbusier, one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, died in 1965 only weeks after completing "Mise au point", his last opus in the form of autobiographical reflections.

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Product Description: Le Corbusier was unquestionably the most important figure in twentieth-century architecture. His work in both design and theory has never been equaled. His most famous buildings -- reflecting industrial as well as sculptural influences -- include Villa Savoie, Ronchamp Chapel, La Tourette, Unité d'Habitation, and the United Nations Building, which was created with an international roster of architects...read more
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9781885254580 | Monacelli Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $250.00 | About this edition: Le Corbusier was unquestionably the most important figure in twentieth-century architecture.

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Analyzes the life and work of Le Corbusier--the architect, city planner, sculptor, draftsman, painter, and tapestry designer--including his revolutionary work on the Villa Savoye, the church at Ronchamp, and the design of the new capital for the Punjab. Original.
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9780810928800 | Reprint edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Analyzes the life and work of Le Corbusier, including his revolutionary work on the Villa Savoye, the church at Ronchamp, and the design for the new capital for the Punjab

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9780817654320 | Birkhauser, June 1, 1996, cover price $55.01

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Product Description: Le Corbusier (1887-1965), the great Swiss-French architect, was unquestionably the most important figure in twentieth-century architecture. His work in both design and theory has never been equaled. His most famous buildings include Villa Savoye, Ronchamp Chapel, La Tourette, and Unité d'Habitation, and his manifesto, Towards a New Architecture, is still read by all students of architecture worldwide...read more
By Mila Dau (trans) and Le Corbusier
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9781885254153 | Monacelli Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $250.00 | About this edition: Le Corbusier (1887-1965), the great Swiss-French architect, was unquestionably the most important figure in twentieth-century architecture.

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