TEXTS AND SKETCHES FOR RONCHAMP
Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier: TEXTS AND SKETCHES FOR RONCHAMP. Ronchamp: Association oeuvre de N.D.du Haut, 1982. First English-language edition. A fine softcover book in stiff, printed wrappers. Interior unmarked and very clean. The English edition is somewhat uncommon.

5 x 5 perfect-bound softcover book with 52 pages of notes and sketches of the Chapel at Ronchamp. English-language edition of Textes et dessins pour Ronchamp, originally published in 1965 -- a few months before le Corbusier died.

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit 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 wasn't until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.

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