Le Corbusier The Artist The Writer

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: Plastic Arts of the Twentieth Century. Physical description: 131 pages, illustrations (some color), facsimiles 25 cm. Notes: Translation of Le Corbusier. L'artiste et l'écrivain. Illus. (some col.) incl. sections, elevations and facsimiles. Subjects: Le Corbusier 1887-1965; Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret); Anecdotes; Architecture, French; Architecture France History 20th century. 1 Kg. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier,^[a][5] was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French-speaking Swiss parents, and acquired French nationality by naturalization in 1930.^[6] His career spanned five decades, in which he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, as well as North and South America.^[7] He considered that "the roots of modern architecture are to be found in Viollet-le-Duc."^[8]