OPPOSITIONS 15/16 and OPPOSITIONS 19/20
Le Corbusier 1905 - 1933
Le Corbusier 1933 - 1960
Peter Eisenmann, Kurt Forster, Kenneth Frampton,
Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler [Editors]
Peter Eisenmann, Kurt Forster, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler [Editors]: OPPOSITIONS 15/16: A JOURNAL FOR IDEAS AND CRITICISM IN ARCHITECTURE. Cambridge: MIT Press/The Institute For Architecture And Urban Studies, Winter/Spring 1979. First edition. 8vo. Silkscreened perfect bound wrappers. 204 pp. Black and white photographs and diagrams. Designed by Massimo Vignelli. Cover silkscreened on Champion Colorcast Cover Stock. Former owners signature on title page. Interior unmarked and very clean. The orange covers show the usual edgewear. A very good copy.
Peter Eisenmann, Kurt Forster, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler [Editors]: OPPOSITIONS 19/20: A JOURNAL FOR IDEAS AND CRITICISM IN ARCHITECTURE. Cambridge: MIT Press/The Institute For Architecture And Urban Studies, Winter/Spring 1980. First edition. 8vo. Silkscreened perfect bound wrappers. 222 pp. Black and white photographs and diagrams. Designed by Massimo Vignelli. Cover silkscreened on Champion Colorcast Cover Stock. Interior unmarked and very clean. The orange covers show the usual edgewear. A very good copy.
[2] 8.5 x 9.75 perfect-bound softcover book with 204 -222 pages profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams. Legendary journal published from 1973 to 1981 that attempted to reconcile the embedded traditions of Modernism with contemporary advances in architecture and urban theory. Highly recommended for both form and content.
Contents for OPPOSITIONS 15/16:
- Le Corbusier 1905-1933 edited by Kenneth Frampton
- Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
- Le Corbusier and 'L'Esprit Nouveau' by Kenneth Frampton: 116 black and white illustrations covering Le Corbusier's entire career
- The Dom-ino Idea by Eleanor Gregh: 12 black and white illustrations
- The Grid by Barry Maitland: 43 black and white illustrations
- Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign by Peter Eisenman (19 black and white illustrations)
- Antiquity and Modernity in the La Roche-Jeanneret Houses of 1923 (34 black and white illustrations)
- A Nature, Morte, 1927 by Katherine Fraser Fischer (12 black and white illustrations)
- Technology, Society, and Social Control in le Corbusier's Cite de Refuge, Paris, 1933: 22 black and white illustrations
- A Villa of Le Corbusier, 1916 by Julien Caron: 13 black and white illustrations
- The Significance of the Garden-City of Weissenhof, Stuttgart (1928) by Le Corbusier
Contents for OPPOSITIONS 19/20:
- Le Corbusier 1933 - 1960 edited by Kenneth Frampton
- The Rise and Fall of the Radiant City: Le Corbusier 1928-1960 by Kenneth Frampton (24 black and white illustrations)
- Aqueous Humor by Robert Slutzky (45 black and white illustrations)
- Le Corbusier and Algiers by Mary McLeod (41 black and white illustrations)
- Le Corbusier as Painter by Stanislaus von Moos (21 black and white illustrations)
- Alchemical and Mythical Themes in the Poem of the Right Angle, 1947-1965 (48 black and white illustrations)
- The Pilgrimage Chapel at Ronchamp by Stuart Cohen and Steven Hurtt (38 black and white illustrations)
- An Analysis of the Governor's Palace of Chandigarh by Alexander C. Gorlin (57 black and white illustrations)
- Plans: Bibliography by Mary McLeod (26 black and white illustrations)‹early 1930s French magazine whose contributors included Marcel Breuer, Raoul Dufy, Walter Gropius, Arthur Honegger, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Fillipo Marinetti, Frans Masereel, Jean Picart le Doux, Aldo Rossi, Karel Teige, and many more.
- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA. Le Corbusier, 1961-1963: Documentation (21 black and white illustrations)
- Le Corbusier at Work: Review (8 black and white illustrations)
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 Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.
The Institute For Architecture And Urban Studies was founded in 1967 as a non-profit independent agency concerned with research, education, and development in architecture and urbanism. It began as a core group of young architects seeking alternatives to traditional forms of education and practice. Peter Eisenman was appointed as the Institutes first executive director followed by Anthony Vidler (1982), Mario Gandelsonas (1983) and Stephen Petersen (1984). In 1985 the Institute ceased to exist. ... Like tears in the rain.