Le Corbusier – författare

Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his death (August 27, 2015), one of Le Corbusier's most significant books becomes available again in English. The "Precisions", as the book is commonly known, emerged from a spontaneous and exuberant series of 10 lectures Le Corbusier gave in Buenos Aires in 1929, reflecting a new maturity in his thinking. They contain some of his most compelling aphorisms, covering technique as the basis of architecture, the human scale in design, furniture, the private house, apartments and office buildings, the city, the League of Nations competition, teaching architecture.As he spoke, Le Corbusier improvised colour drawings on large sheets of paper. The drawings and lectures are unique in their eloquent and concise summary of his philosophy of architecture and urban design, stating the principles that informed his work from the 1920s on.This new edition for the first time features all of Le Corbusier's drawings in colour. A new essay by British scholar Tim Benton, written for this new edition, contextualises the "Precisions" within Le Corbusier's oeuvre and comments on their lasting significance.

Le Corbusier besökte Alger första gången 1931, och mötet med staden, särskilt läget och den ursprungliga kasbahn, ledde till att han engagerade sig i dess utveckling och arkitektur. Den lilla skriften "Poesi över Alger" är blygsam både till omfång och format, men den intar ändå en viktig plats i Le Corbusiers skrivande. Den är dessutom relevant i förhållande till den samtida arkitektur- och stadsbyggnadskulturen och försvarar sin plats som ett intressant dokument i arkitekturteorins historia. Denna utgåva är ett resultat av den utställning som visades på Röhsska museet i Göteborg från december 2015 till mars 2016 med anledning av femtioårsminnet av Le Corbusiers död. Det är den tredje av Le Corbusiers böcker som översätts till svenska, och det är den första boken som direkt återger hela originalutgåvan.