Le Corbusier
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For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional relationships by means of raw materials." The first major exposition...
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The great revolutionary architect's probing analysis of urban problems and their origins, and his bold solutions, which include the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris, and the more developed scheme for a "City of Three Million Inhabitants." Introduction. Foreword. 133 black-and-white illustrations. 82 black-and-white halftones.
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En la presente obra Le Corbusier, el gran arquitecto suizo-francés, aconseja y puntualiza cómo debe entenderse y enseñarse la arquitectura. Con un estilo coloquial y directo, este "Mensaje" se ha constituido en un documento imprescindible para aquellos que se inician en la disciplina arquitectónica.