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Le Corbusier: Architects
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At the heart of Le Corbusier's artistic universality lays the fact, that he did not give priority to any one of the art crafts he embraced. His paintings, sculptures, drawings, murals and lithographs were as important for him as his architectural work.
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Approximately 500 slides of Le Corbusier’s buildings encompass the architect’s career, spanning over 50 years of construction. Included are slides taken during the 1965 and 1987 restorations of the famous Villa Savoye.
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In the first issue of the journal, in 1920, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret adopted Le Corbusier, an altered form of his maternal grandfather's name, "Lecorbésier", as a pseudonym, reflecting his belief that anyone could reinvent oneself. Some architectural historians claim that this pseudonym translates as "the crow-like one." [2] Adopting a single name to identify oneself was in vogue by artists in many fields during that era, especially among those in Paris.
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This final volume contains the personal reflections, criticisms of other's work, and self-criticisms of Le Corbusier's maturity. He reassesses many of his works and projects with brutal honesty and his evaluation of Dutch functionalism and American architecture are equally forthright.
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