THE OPEN HAND
ESSAYS ON LE CORBUSIER
Russell Walden [Editor]
Russell Walden [Editor] André Wogenscky [Foreword]: THE OPEN HAND/ESSAYS ON LE CORBUSIER. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1977. First edition. Thick quarto. Black cloth stamped in green. Printed dust jacket. 484 pp. 142 text images. Essays. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. A fine copy in a very good or better, lightly rubbed dust jacket. 6.25 x 9.25 hardcover book with 484 pages and 142 b/w photographs, drawings and plans: "most of them published here for the first time, including a unique biographical series, bring futher clarity and freshness to this reassessment." Fourteen essays by Russell Walden, Paul Turner, Patricia Seckler, Maurice Favre, Brian Taylor, Charles Jencks, Anthony Sutcliffe, Robert Fishman, Martin Purdy, John Winter, Maxwell Fry, Jane Drew, Madhu Sarin and Stanislaus van Moos.
From the book:"In this book the image of the Open Hand, as a symbol of sharing and benediction, is traced to Le Corbusier's earliest years. It recurs in his work right up to his last writings."
"...astute, insightful, and precise scholarship.... It is also a delight to have the series of pictures of Le Corbusier at different stages of his life at the beginning of each chapter."-- Society of Architectural Historians Journal
"This is one of the first sizeable works containing original research on Le Corbusier to appear in English. The fruits of the first generation of scholars to have worked on the vast archive in the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris must be of interest to all specialists in the field. And anyone interested in the roots of contemporary architecture will surely find sustenance in this volume." -- The Architectural Review
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