OPPOSITIONS 15/16 and 19/20

Le Corbusier 1905-1933
Le Corbusier 1933-1960

Peter Eisenmann, Kurt Forster, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler (editors)

Peter Eisenmann, Kurt Forster, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler (editors): OPPOSITIONS 19/20: A JOURNAL FOR IDEAS AND CRITICISM IN ARCHITECTURE. Cambridge: MIT Press/The Institute For Architecture And Urban Studies, Winter/Spring 1980. First edition. 8vo. A near-fine perfect-bound softcover book in stiff, silkscreened French-folded wrappers: the orange covers show the usual wear. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Cover silkscreened on Champion Colorcast Cover Stock. Designed by Massimo Vignelli.

(2) 8.5 x 9.75 perfect-bound softcover book with 204 -222 pages profusely illustrated with b/w photographs and diagrams. Legendary journal published from 1973 to 1981 that attempted to reconcile the embedded traditions of Modernism with contemporary advances in architecture and urban theory. Highly recommended for both form and content.

Contents for OPPOSITIONS 15/16:

• Le Corbusier 1905-1933 edited by Kenneth Frampton
• Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
• Le Corbusier and 'L'Esprit Nouveau' by Kenneth Frampton: 116 b/w illustrations covering Le Corbusier's entire career
• The Dom-ino Idea by Eleanor Gregh: 12 b/w illustrations
• The Grid by Barry Maitland: 43 b/w illustrations
• Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign by Peter Eisenman (19 b/w illustrations)
• Antiquity and Modernity in the La Roche-Jeanneret Houses of 1923 (34 b/w illustrations)
• A Nature, Morte, 1927 by Katherine Fraser Fischer (12 b/w illustrations)
• Technology, Society, and Social Control in le Corbusier's Cite de Refuge, Paris, 1933: 22 b/w illustrations
• A Villa of Le Corbusier, 1916 by Julien Caron: 13 b/w illustrations
• The Significance of the Garden-City of Weissenhof, Stuttgart (1928) by Le Corbusier

Contents for OPPOSITIONS 19/20:

• Le Corbusier 1933 - 1960 edited by Kenneth Frampton
• The Rise and Fall of the Radiant City: Le Corbusier 1928-1960 by Kenneth Frampton (24 b/w illustrations)
• Aqueous Humor by Robert Slutzky (45 b/w illustrations)
• Le Corbusier and Algiers by Mary McLeod (41 b/w illustrations)
• Le Corbusier as Painter by Stanislaus von Moos (21 b/w illustrations)
• Alchemical and Mythical Themes in the Poem of the Right Angle, 1947-1965 (48 b/w illustrations)
• The Pilgrimage Chapel at Ronchamp by Stuart Cohen and Steven Hurtt (38 b/w illustrations)
• An Analysis of the Governor's Palace of Chandigarh by Alexander C. Gorlin (57 b/w illustrations)
• Plans: Bibliography by Mary McLeod (26 b/w illustrations)‹early 1930s French magazine whose contributors included Marcel Breuer, Raoul Dufy, Walter Gropius, Arthur Honegger, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Fillipo Marinetti, Frans Masereel, Jean Picart le Doux, Aldo Rossi, Karel Teige, and many more.
• The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA. Le Corbusier, 1961-1963: Documentation (21 b/w illustrations)
• Le Corbusier at Work: Review (8 b/w illustrations)

The Institute For Architecture And Urban Studies was founded in 1967 as a non-profit independent agency concerned with research, education, and development in architecture and urbanism. It began as a core group of young architects seeking alternatives to traditional forms of education and practice. Peter Eisenman was appointed as the Institutes first executive director followed by Anthony Vidler (1982), Mario Gandelsonas (1983) and Stephen Petersen (1984). In 1985 the Institute ceased to exist. ... Like tears in the rain.

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