Editor: Catherine De Smet
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Publication: 2005, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 128
Size: 215 x 285
Text: English
ISBN: 3037780347
(Introduction) 'Le Corbusier is well known as an architect, urban planner, and entrepreneur, and also as a publicist, theorist, writer, and photographer, and even as an artist who produced drawings, paintings, and sculpture. Yet there is one activity, related to all these others but not subsumed by any of them, to which Le Corbusier tirelessly devoted himself right up to his death in 1965: the production of books. This activity merits greater attention since Le Corbusier conceived of his books not only as intellectual projects but also as concrete works that he intended to master from A to Z. The quantity of books he published is revealing in itself: thirty-five titles (according to the bibliography that concludes his last book, L'Atelier de la recherche patiente'), not counting his contributions to general books on his work nor his countless articles. And then there were the editorial projects that never came to fruition-Le Corbusier constantly envisaged various new publishing projects, as his archives reveal...'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to cover/edges. Light spotting to outer right edge of cover.
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