LE CORBUSIER ET PIERRE JEANNERET
OEUVRE COMPLETE 1934 -1938
Le Corbusier, Max Bill [Editor and Designer]
Le Corbusier, Max Bill [Editor and Designer]: LE CORBUSIER & P. JEANNERET OEUVRE COMPLETE 1934 -1938. Zurich: Les Editions d' Architecture, 1947. Third printing. Text in French, with articles only in German and English. Oblong quarto. Photographically printed dust jacket. Tan cloth embossed and stamped in red. 208 pp. 550 black and white photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans. Cloth lightly worn; textblock lightly shaken (as usual for these oblong volumes); dust jacket lightly rubbed and soiled with mild chipping along top edge. Book design by Max Bill. A very good or better copy.
11 x 9 hardcover book with 208 pages and 500 black and white photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans.The third volume in the Le Corbusier "Oeuvre ComplËte" series, recording his designs for works in Rio De Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Lithographs, Paintings, Sculpture, Sketches and much more. A nice early edition from one of the great architectural publishing ventures of the 20th century.
No disrespect to Birkhauser, but the contemporary reprints of this series cannot hold a candle to the sharp image engraving or the crisp feel of the type on the glossy pages. The stamped cloth covers also help make examining these volumes a very tactile experience.
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 wasnπt until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.