Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
Contributors: Charles Jencks (Editor); Karl Kropf (Editor)
Publisher: Academy Press
Published: March 10, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780470014691
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.