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. The contributors to the book offer an account of Le Corbusier's formative years and the cultural, intellectual and artistic concerns that absorbed him as a young artist in Switzerland and Paris. From 1907 to 1922 Jeanneret learned the art and craft of architecture and design, and defined his own image as an artist. The volume discusses the cultural climate of his Swiss hometown, La Chaux-de-Fonds; his early mentors, friends and clients; his educational pursuits, including his self-designed Grand Tour; and his first successes as an architect and designer. More than 350 illustrations - including architectural drawings and models, watercolours, sketches, photographs and furniture - show the wide range of young Le Corbusier's work and illuminate the principal themes and issues of his formative years.
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The title refers to the formative years of the master architect, when he was still known as Charles- douard Jeanneret-Gris. After a brief chronology of the subject's life until 1922, a series of essays examines his early years from the perspectives of his travels, love of photography, classical roots, embrace of the concept of Raumkunst (or spatial art, through which he developed an acute sense of interior scale), and talent as a painter. Also serving as an exhibition catalog for a show that ran in Switzerland last spring and will appear at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York City until January 2003, the volume includes 350 excellent illustrations of work from this period (in both black-and-white and color), divided into four sections with explanatory text. Rarely do we see the visual language of a designer so well documented and deeply interpreted as in this book, edited by modern art professor von Moos (Univ. of Zurich) and Swiss architect and professor Regg. This is a happy occasion for students of Le Corbusier. For larger collections.
Paul Glassman, New York Sch. of Interior Design Lib.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Paul Glassman, New York Sch. of Interior Design Lib.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Excellent illustrations...Rarely do we see the visual language of a designer so well documented and deeply interpreted... -- Library Journal
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This review is from: Le Corbusier Before le Corbusier: Architectural Studies, Interiors, Painting and Photography, 1907-1922 (Hardcover)
This mammoth book will be read as long as people are interested in art of LE CORBUSIER, which is to say forever.a collection of documents of his creative concerns as a young artist.
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