Le Corbusier Le Grand (First Edition)

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First edition

COHEN, Jean-Louis BENTON, Tim (eds.; Phaidon Editors). Le Corbusier Le Grand. London: Phaidon Press, 2008. 2 vols. Elephant Folio (32 × 42 cm). Vol. I: Pictorial colour-illustrated boards, 72 pp. Vol. II: Brown paper boards stamped in black (Documents volume, with English translations), 767 pp. 788 pp total. Illustrated slipcase. Approximately 2,000 images and documents throughout, many previously unpublished — major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, furniture, sketches, archival photographs, and personal correspondence. First edition. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965), who renamed himself Le Corbusier in 1920, choosing the pseudonym from a branch of his mother's family, was the most consequential architect and urban theorist of the twentieth century: the man whose proposals for the complete demolition and rebuilding of central Paris, whose theoretical writings shaped the built environment of every city in the developed world for half a century. His influence extended to people who disagreed with him profoundly, because his ideas were clear and forceful enough to require disagreement. He remains the most debated figure in the history of modern architecture. A book grand in size is the appropriate vehicle for a life of the scale of Le Corbusier's. Phaidon's endeavour is a spectacular visual biography of the life and work of one of modernism's most influential architects, urban planners, and theorists. Fine. Both volumes present as new. Slipcase shows some

• Binding: Hardcover

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