BOOKS ON THE ARTIST LE CORBUSIER
Boesiger, W. LE CORBUSIER et PIERRE JEANNERET. Oeuvre Complete. [1910-1965]. 7 volumes comprise 1,510 pp. and illustrated with ca. 2,000 b&w photographs and diagrams. Text in English, French and German translations. Oblong 4tos, cloth. Various publishers: Editions Girsberger, Wittenborn, and Editions d'Architecture Erlenbach in Zurich and New York, 1948 - 1965.
Catalogue Raisonné.Freitag, #5270.
Item nr. 29475
$ 750.00
Herve, Lucien. LE CORBUSIER: As Artist As Writer. (series: Plastic Arts of the Twentieth Century.) Intro. by Marcel Joray. 131 pp. include 124 illustrations, a few in color. Square 4to, cloth. Neuchatel, Eds. du Griffon, 1970.
Item nr. 33963
$ 50.00
Curtis, William J. R. LE CORBUSIER: Ideas and Forms. 240 pp., 243 illustrations, 31 in color. 4to, wraps. London and New York, Phaidon Press, 2003.
Item nr. 41269
$ 29.95
Paris. L'Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui: LE COURBUSIER & P. JEANNERET. Volume 10 148 pp. text with b&w illustrations. 4to in board folio.
Item nr. 42367
$ 250.00
Bacon, Mardges. LE CORBUSIER in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid. 406 pp., 8 color and numerous b&w figures. Small square 4to, wraps. Cambridge and London, MIT Press, 2001.
A scholarly account of Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States, in 1935, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art. The text describes both the visit, its effect on Le Corbusier, and the intellectual discourse prevalent in France at the time which offers a larger context for understanding his subsequent volume of memoirs about the trip entited "When the Cathedrals were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People".
Item nr. 93518
$ 35.00
Paris. L'Union Cental des Arts Decoratifs. LE CORBUSIER: Une Oevre. Un Combat. Un Homme. Approximately 50 pp., filled with b&w plates. Tiny, thin, square 8vo, wraps. 1966.
Text in French.
Item nr. 98283
$ 25.00
TAYLOR, Brian Brace. Le Corbusier et Pessac 1914-1928. 127 pages in 2 volumes, including 4 color, and 100 b&w plates. 8vo, wraps. Fondation Le Corbusier, 1972.
Text in French.
Item nr. 98501
$ 50.00
Gresleri, Giuliano. (Ch.-E. Jeanneret) LE CORBUSIER: Voyage d'Allemagne. Carnets. 165 pp. text, followed by roughly 400 pp. of facsimile, illustrated in b&w and color. 8vo, wraps. Milan, Electa Architecture and Paris, Fondation Le Corbusier, 2002.
A facsimile edition.
Item nr. 102222
$ 29.95
Baltanas, Jose. Walking Through LE CORBUSIER: A Tour of His Masterworks. 192 pp., 247 color and 130 b&w illustrations. Oblong 4to, boards. London and New York, Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Item nr. 117100
$ 45.00
Ruegg, Arthur. [RENE BURRI] Pour Le Courbusier. 84 folding pages, illustrated in b&w. 8vo, boards. Baden, Lars Muller, 2006.
Item nr. 120370
$ 45.00
Von Moos, Stanislaus et al.. LE CORBUSIER: The Art of Architecture. 398 pp., illustrated throughout in color and b&w. 4to, cloth-backed boards. Weil am Rhein, Vitra Design Museum, 2007.
Divided into three sections entitled 'Contexts', 'Privacy and Publicity' and 'Built Art', the show also focuses on major themes in his work, such as his ongoing interest in the Mediterranean and the Orient, his shift toward organic forms in the 1930s, as well as his exploration of new technologies and media. Accompanies a travelling exhibition.
Item nr. 124757
$ 160.00
Cohen, Jean-Louis (introduction) with chapter introductions by Tim Benton. LE CORBUSIER: Le Grand. 768 pp., roughly 2,000 color and b&w photographs, reproductions, daiagrams and floorplans. With separate English Translation of the Documents: unpaginated, illustrated in b&w. Folios, boards in slipcase. London and New York, Phaidon Press, 2008.
A visual biography of this influential modernist architect, urban planner, and theorist.
Approximately 2000 images and documents, many previously unpublished, inform his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture.
Item nr. 128108
$ 200.00
Weber, Nicholas Fox. LE CORBUSIER: A Life. xxii and 824 pages, illustrated in b&w. 8vo, boards. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Item nr. 130459
$ 45.00
Benton, Caroline Maniaque. LE CORBUSIER and the Maisons Jaoul. 176 pages, 220 color and b&w figures. 4to, boards. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
Item nr. 136117
$ 40.00
LE CORBUSIER. Talks with students from the schools of architecture. 88 pages. 12mo, cloth. New York, The Orion Press, 1961.
Item nr. 137441
$ 20.00
Boyer, M. Christine. LE CORBUSIER, Homme de Lettres. 720 pages, including 46 color and 170 b&w plates. 8vo, boards. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
Not in stock. Publication announced for October 2010
Text in English.
Item nr. 142279
$ 70.00
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