Le Corbusier and the Architecture of Reinvention
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Author(s): Architectural Association
Publisher: Architectural Association Publishers
ISBN: 1902902297
Format: softback
176pp
Price: £22.50
Review Date: 29 July 2003
Review: These are the proceedings of a conference held by the Architectural Association in 2001. Charles-édouard Jeanneret, whose had the pseudonym ‘Le Corbusier’ (meaning crow-like – as he spent much of his life observing the world from a birds-eye perspective) reinvented everything he touched, from himself to architecture. Here eight authors examine the range and the multiplicity of Le Corbusiers’s architectural practices and their repercussions. The recently published Charles Jencks’s Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture provided a point of reference for a few of the essays and an English translation of Le Corbusiers’s poem Le Poème de l’Angle Droit , which is one of his most significant texts, is included.