RONCHAMP
CHAPELLE NOTRE DAME DU HAUT
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier: RONCHAMP [CHAPELLE NOTRE DAME DU HAUT]. Paris: Les Cahiers Forces Vives, 1957. Second edition. Text in French. Square quarto. Saddle-stitched and perfect bound stiff printed wrappers. Printed dust jacket. 124 pp. Black and white photographs. Drawings and sketches. A few leaves foxed early and late. Jacket with light edgewear and two closed tears. A very good copy.8 x 8 softcover book with 124 pages dedicated to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp, with drawings and sketches by Corbu himself. A very elegant, gravure-printed book.
Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it wasn't until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.
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