Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
Contributors: Charles Jencks (Editor); Karl Kropf (Editor)
Publisher: Academy Press
Published: July 22, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780471976875
Subjects: Theory of architecture; Planning; 20th Century Architecture; Architecture; Philosophy; Criticism; Architecture / Criticism; General
First sentence: Villa Garches, recently reoccupied, and the houses for Mr Jaoul and his son, now nearing completion, are possibly the most significant buildings by Le Corbusier to be seen in Paris to-day, for they represent the extremes of his vocabulary: the former, rational, urbane, programmatic, the latter personal and anti-mechanistic.