Le Corbusier
Subtitle: the measures of man
By: edited by Olivier Cinqualbre and Frédéric Migayrou ; translated from the French by Rita Eustace, Robert McInnes and Sarah Tolley
Contributors: Le Corbusier, 1887-1965; Musée national d'art moderne (France); Fondation Le Corbusier
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9783858817686
Subjects: Architectural drawing; French Painting; Modern Architecture; Designs and plans; Exhibitions; Architecture
Other titles: Corbusier :
Work titles: Le Corbusier. English
Notes: "This publication accompanies the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne (Gallery 2) from April 29 to August 3, 2015, made possible by the support of the Fondation Le Corbusier"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253).

Translated into English from the original French title, Le Corbusier: mesures de l'homme.
Table of contents: title: Constants of Eurhythmics; title: Eyes within eyes. Architecture and mathesis / Frédéric Migayrou; title: Purism and proportions / Roxana Vicovanu; title: The L'Esprit Nouveau Pavilion. Manifesto for a Corbusian system / Maïlis Favre; title: A body for living; title: Houses and villas (1921-1931). The eloquence of sketches / Olivier Cinqualbre; title: The Corbusian sportive body / Rémi Baudouï and Arnaud Dercelles; title: Le Corbusier. Furnishing body and soul / Cloé Pitiot; title: Dimensions of an anthropometry; title: Touching the body. Le Corbusier's figurative works / Genevieve Hendricks; title: The modulor. Variances of an invariant / Frédéric Migayrou; title: The open hand. From political symbol to the artist's signature / Marie-Jeanne Dumont; title: The ineffable space; title: Genesis and representation of ineffable space / Roberto Gargiani; title: Béton brut, acoustic plasticity, and the "cement gun" / Anna Rosellini; title: Polychromy / Jan de Heer; title: The universal man; title: The city laid bare / Aurélien Lemonier; title: A room to spend the summer / Olivier Cinqualbre; title: Postface: confessions, tribulations, evolutions ... / Marie-Jeanne Dumont.