Le Corbusier, the noble savage toward an archaelogy of modernism

• Main Author: Vogt, Adof Max
• Other Authors: Donnell, Radka (Translator)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, MA The MIT Press 1998
• Subjects: Le Corbusier, > 1887-1965 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Αρχιτεκτονική > 20ός αιώνας; Αρχιτεκτονική > Θεωρία

This revelatory study is the most unexpected and vital piece of Le Corbusier scholarship to appear in years. Adolf Max Vogt looks to the early, formative years of the architect's life as a key to understanding his mature practice, taking aim at such fundamental riddles as "Where did his de...

Table of Contents:

• pt. I. "The Weight of Things"
• Does It Count Longer Than the Name of Things?
• pt. II. A Hymn in Praise of Pilotis
• and in Praise of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• pt. III. The Fisherman's Hut and the Huts of the Crannoges
• pt. IV. The Swiss Lake-Dwelling Fever
• pt. V. LC's Early School Years and Their Dreams of Primary Origins
• pt. VI. Why LC "Knows" What Modernism Is.