The le Corbusier Guide

This is the kind of book I have been waiting for, I think, for the better part of my life. Nothing is more frustrating to architecture buffs than to travel across the continent to see a celebrated building and then, since scholarly histories never deign to offer practical information, not to be able to find it....[With] Deborah Gans' superb book, life [is] vastly easier. Her excellent text is detailed...[and] contains excellent maps and photographs. —Paul Goldberger, __New York Times__A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there's no real substitute for personal experience. Anyone who's visited the architecture of Le Corbusier knows just how true this is. Our indispensable __The Le Corbusier Guide__, first published in 1987 and now in its third edition, will help you do just that. This architectural handbook tells you everything you need to know to get to Le Corbusier's extant buildings in Europe, Japan, Russia, Africa, India, and North and South America, and includes updated maps, directions, and visitor information Content: Front Matter, Page 1 Copyright, Page 2 Dedication, Page 2 Acknowledgements, Page 5 Using The Le Corbusier Guide, Pages 7-8 Le Corbusier: A Dialectical Itinerary, Pages 9-25 Le Corbusier: A Biographical Note, Pages 26-30 Maison Planex (Planeix) 1927: 24, boulevard Masséna 75013 Paris, Pages 32-33 Asile Flottant 1929: Quaid'Austerlitz 75013 Paris, Pages 34-36 Cité de Refuge (l'Armée du Salut) 1933: 12, rue Cantagrel 75013 Paris, Pages 34-36 Atelier Ozenfant 1922: 53, avenue Reille 75014 Paris, Pages 37-38 Pavillon Suisse 1932: 7, boulevardJourdan Cité Universitaire 75014 Paris, Pages 39-41 Pavillon du Brésil 1959: 4, avenue de la Porte Gentilly Cité Universitaire 75014 Paris, Pages 42-43 Maisons La Roche-Jeanneret 1923: 8–10, square du Docteur Blanche 75016 Paris Tel. 42.88.41.53, Pages 44-46 Apartment House with Le Corbusier's apartment at Porte Molitor 1933: 24, rue Nungesser-et-Coli 75016 Paris, Pages 47-49 Maisons Lipchitz-Miestchaninoff 1924: 7, allée des Pins–3, rue des Arts 92100 Boulogne, Pages 50-51 Maison Ternisien 1926: 5, alle des Pins 92100 Boulogne, Page 52 Maison Cook 1926: 6, rue Denfert-Rochereau 92100 Boulogne-sur-Seine, Pages 53-54 Maisons Jaoul 1956: 81 bis, rue de Longchamp 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Pages 55-57 Villa Besnus (Ker-ka-ré) 1922: 85, boulevard de la République 94400 Vaucresson, Pages 58-59 Villa Stein/de Monzie (“Les Terraces”) 1927: 17, rue du Prof. Victor Pauchet Garches, Pages 60-62 Maison de Weekend 1935: 49, avenue du Chesnay 78170 La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Pages 63-64 Villa Savoye (“Les Heures Claires”) 1931: Chemin de Villiers 78300 Poissy, Pages 65-67 Unité d'habitation, Briey-en-Forêt 1961: Route D.137, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Pages 70-71 Manufacture Duval 1951: Avenue de Robache 88100 St-Dié Vosges, Pages 72-73 Chapelle Notre-Damedu-Haut 1954: 70250 Ronchamp Haute-Sâone, Pages 74-77 Écluse de Kembs-Niffer 1962: Canal du Rhone au Rhin Embranchementde Huningue-Rhin, Pages 78-79 Couvent de La Tourette 1960: 69210 Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle Rhône Tel. 74.01.01.03, Pages 80-83 Firminy-Vert: La Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture 1965, Pages 84-86 Unité d'habitation, Marseille 1952: 2800, boulevard Michelet 13000 Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Pages 87-90 Villa de Mandrot 1931: Chemin de l'Artaude 83220 Le Pradet, Pages 91-92 Le Petit Cabanon 1952: Path parallel to Sentier du Bord de Mer, Plage du Buse 06 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Pages 93-94 Grave of Le Corbusier and his wife, Yvonne 1957: Roquebrune Cemetery Chemin de Pancrace, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Page 95 Quartier Moderne Frugès 1926: Rue Le Corbusier, rue H. Frugés, rue des Arcades 33600 Pessac, Pages 96-98 Villa le Sextant (Maison aux Mathes, Maison l'Océan) 1935: Avenue de I'Océan La Palmy re 17570 District Les Mathes, Charentes-Maritimes, Pages 99-100 Unité d'habitation Nantes-Rezé, La Maison familiale 1953: 19, rue Crebillon 44400 Rezé-les-Nantes, Pages 101-102 Villa Fallet 1907: 1, ehern in de Pouillerel 2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Pages 104-105 Villa Stotzer 1908: 6, chemin de Pouillerel 2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Pages 106-107 Villa Jacquemet 1908: 8, chemin de Pouillerel 2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Pages 106-107 Villa Jeanneret 1912: 12, ehern in de Pouillerel 2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Pages 108-109 Villa Favre-Jacot 1912: 6, côte des Billodes 2400 Le Locle, Pages 110-111 Cinéma Scala 1916: 52, rue de la Serre La Chaux-de-Fonds, Pages 112-113 Villa Schwob (Villa Turque) 1916: 167,rueduDoubs 2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Pages 114-115 La Petite Maison 1924: Route de Lavaux Vevey, Pages 116-117 Immeuble Clarté 1931: 2, rue St Laurent Geneva, Pages 118-119 Centre Le Corbusier, La Maison de l'Homme 1967: Höschgasse8 Zurichhorn Park, Zurich 110, A Postfach, CH-8034 (mailing address), Pages 120-121 Maison Guiette 1926: 32, Popanerenlaan (in French, avenue des Peupliers) Antwerp, Belgium, Pages 124-125 Single-Family House and Two-Family House of the Weissenhof 1925: Am Weissenhof 30 7000 Stuttgart 1 Tel. 257 1434 (Architecture Gallery), Pages 126-128 Unité d'habitation Berlin Charlottenburg (Le Corbusier-Hochhaus) 1958: Reichssportsfeld Heilsbergen Dreieck 143 Berlin, Page 129 Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau 1925, 1977: Piazza Constituzione, 11 Bologna, Pages 130-132 United Nations Headquarters 1947: First Avenue, 42nd-48th St. New York City Tel. (212) 754-7713, Pages 134-135 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University 1963: 24 Quincy Street Cambridge, Mass. 02138, Pages 136-137 Maison Currutchet 1949: Barrio el Bosque La Plata, Pages 138-139 Brazilian Ministry of Education and Public Health 1938, 1943: (now called Palace of Culture or Ministry of Education and Culture), Pages 140-142 Villa Baizeau (Bézeult) 1929: Sainte Monique, Carthage, Pages 144-145 Saddam Hussein Gymnasium 1980: Baghdad, Iraq, Pages 146-147 National Museum of Western Art 1959: 7-7 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Ueno Tokyo Tel. 828-5131, Pages 148-149 Centrosoyus (Tsentrosoiuz) Building 1933: Central Statistical Administration of the USSR Ulitsa Kirova, 39 Moscow, Pages 150-151 Ahmedabad, Gujarat India, Page 153 Millowners' Association Building 1954: Sri R. C. Road Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Pages 154-155 Maison d'habitation de Mme Manorama Sarabhai 1955: Shahibag, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Pages 156-157 Villa Shodhan 1956: KharawalaRoad Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Pages 158-159 N. C. Mehta Museum of Miniatures 1958: Bhagtacharya Road Sanskar Kendra, Paldi Ahmedabad, Gujarat Tel. 78369, Pages 160-162 Chandigarh, Pages 163-166 Palace of Justice (High Court) 1956: Sector 1 Chandigarh, Pages 167-168 Secretariat 1958: Sector 1 Chandigarh, Pages 169-170 Assembly Building (Parliament) 1961: Sector 1 Chandigarh, Pages 171-172 The Yacht Club (Lake Club) 1964: Sector 1 Chandigarh, Page 173 Museum and Art Gallery 1964: Jan Marg, Sector 10 Chandigarh, Page 174 College of Art, Punjab University 1965 College of Architecture, Punjab University 1965: Sector 10 Chandigarh, Page 175 Monument of the Open Hand 1955, 1986: Sector 1 Chandigarh, Pages 176-177 Glossary, Pages 178-180 Notes, Pages 181-184 Maps, Pages 185-188 Index, Pages 189-192 The Le Corbusier Guide presents the architecture of Le Corbusier. The focus is on Paris given that it is his adopted city and the place where he came of age. Within its environs is a representative sample of his built work. It contains most of his purist houses, and an early foray away from the crisp surfaces of Purism. This itinerary follows the outlines of Le Corbusier's life's work. Beginning at his birthplace in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the route continues to Paris, to the perimeter of France, and finally to the international scene architects, architecture, Paris. Also presented are Le Corbusier's work in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, United States, Argentina, Brazil, Tunisia, Iraq, Japan, USSR, and India. The itinerary includes not only the buildings but also the process of getting from one to the next. On the''open road''it is a pleasure to remember Le Corbusier's own joy of self-propulsion in the automobile, efficiency, and speed in the train; and the thrill of flight as he experienced it with the poet of flight, Antoine de Saint Exupery. All these mimetic pleasures are ancillary to the experience of the buildings in situ in their complex relationship to local landscape, national spirit, and international vision. This is the kind of book I have been waiting for, I think, for the better part of my life. Nothing is more frustrating to architecture buffs than to travel across the continent to see a celebrated building and then, since scholarly histories never deign to offer practical information, not to be able to find it....[With] Deborah Gans' superb book, life [is] vastly easier. Her excellent text is detailed...[and] contains excellent maps and photographs. —Paul Goldberger, New York Times A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there's no real substitute for personal experience. Anyone who's visited the architecture of Le Corbusier knows just how true this is. Our indispensable The Le Corbusier Guide , first published in 1987 and now in its third edition, will help you do just that. This architectural handbook tells you everything you need to know to get to Le Corbusier's extant buildings in Europe, Japan, Russia, Africa, India, and North and South America, and includes updated maps, directions, and visitor information