Le Corbusier the poetics of machine and metaphor

• Main Author: Τζώνης, Αλέξανδρος
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Thames & Hudson 2001
• Subjects: Le Corbusier, > 1887-1965; Le Corbusier, > 1887-1965 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Αρχιτεκτονική, Μοντέρνα > 20ός αιώνας; Αρχιτεκτονικός σχεδιασμός

This is a highly-illustrated exploration of how Le Corbusier came to create the groundbreaking ideas, buildings and designs that changed the course of 20th-century architecture.

Table of Contents:

• Preface: Everything is Architecture
• To observe is to discover, to invent
• Forging the tools of an epoch
• Palaces, Seascrapers, Virgilian dreams
• Between the sum of errors and the dawn of renewal
• Huts, Bottleracks, and Liners
• Landscape Acoustics and Light Canons
• Drama out of stone
• Cartesian Structures
• Epilogue: Everything Returns to the Sea.