THE VILLAS OF LE CORBUSIER 1920 -1930
Tim Benton
[Le Corbusier] Tim Benton: THE VILLAS OF LE CORBUSIER 1920 -1930. New Have:: Yale University Press, 1987. First English-language edition. A near-fine hardcover book in a near-fine dust jacket: truly a collectors copy of this rare edition. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 9 x 11.25 hardcover book with 224 pages and 300 illustrations and photographs (50 in color and 250 in b/w). An unsurpassed monograph focusing on Le Corbusier's early residential work. Originally published in French in 1984. Images including architectural drawings, buildings, letters, and candid photos throughout. Includes project chronologies, synoptic table of villa projects, table of craftsmen and builders, table of fees, catalogue of drawings, and an index.
Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L¹Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it wasn¹t until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unité d¹Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.
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