Le Corbusier : an atlas of modern landscapes /
Atlas of modern landscapes.
Jean-Louis Cohen.
- London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2013.
- 401 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Catalog of an exhibition held June 15-Sept. 23, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: From International to Territory: The Project of an Atlas Barry Bergdoll -- In the Cause of Landscape Jean-Louis Cohen -- Switzerland and Germany -- The Jura: At the School of the Mountains Edmond Charriere -- La Chaux-de-Fonds: Villa Jeanneret-Perret, 1912 -- La Chaux-de-Fonds: Villa Schwob, 1916-17 -- Corseaux: "My Father Lived One Year in This House. The Scenery Fascinated Him" Bruno Reichlin -- Lake Geneva and the Alps: Framing the Panorama between Hodler and Duchamp Stanislaus von Moos -- Geneva: Mundaneum, 1928 -- Munich to Berlin: The Urban Space of German Cities Christoph Schnoor -- Italy and the Orient -- Bucharest to Istanbul: With William Ritter in the Balkans Marie-Jeanne Dumont -- Athos to Athens: Greece in the Voyage d'Orient Yannis Tsiomis -- Rome: A Lesson in Urban Landscape Jean-Louis Cohen -- Pisa: The Enigma of the Piazza dei Miracoli Jacques Lucan -- Contents note continued: Capri: "Le ̀Vrai' Seul Support de l'Architecture": Folklore, Nature, and Landscape Marida Talamona -- Venice: A Lesson on the Human Scale Marida Talamona -- Europe, West to East -- Spain: Traveling to See the Already Seen Juan Jose Lahuerta -- Zlin, Czechoslovakia: Plan for Bat'a, 1935 -- Moscow: Asian Village to Metropolis Jean-Louis Cohen -- Moscow: Centrosoyuz Headquarters, 1928-36 -- Moscow: Palace of the Soviets, 1931-32 -- France -- Atlantic Coast: Nature as Inspiration Tim Benton -- Aquitaine: On the Wilder Shores of Modernism Niklas Maak -- Pessac: Quartiers Modernes Fruges, 1924-26 -- Le Pradet: "The Composition Is Shaped by the Landscape" Bruno Reichlin -- Piace: Ferme Radieuseand Village Radleux Mary McLeod -- Saint-Die: "A Modern Space Conception" for Postwar Reconstruction Mary McLeod -- Marseille: Unite d'Habitation, or the Company of Clouds, the Sky, or the Stars Tim Benton -- Ronchamp: A Landscape of Visual Acoustics Josep Quetglas -- Contents note continued: Eveux-sur-I' Arbresle: Convent of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette, 1953-60 -- Roquebrune-Cap-Martin: Roq and Rob, 1949-55 -- Roquebrune-Cap-Martin: Cabanon, 1951-52 -- Paris -- Rue Jacob: Landscapes Drawn and Painted "in the Evening, by Lamplight" Daniele Pauly -- Rue Nungesser-et-Coli: In the Painter's Studio, in Search of an Expanded Syntax Genevieve Hendricks -- 35 Rue de Sevres: At Work in the Atelier Maristella Casciato -- Paris: Le Corbusier and the Nineteenth-Century City Barry Bergdoll -- Paris: A Mythical and Political Landscape Jean-Louis Cohen -- Paris: Maison La Roche-Jeanneret, 1923-25 -- Garches: Villa Stein-de Monzie, 1926-28 -- Paris: Plan Voisin, 1925 -- Poissy: Villa Savoye, 1928-31 -- Paris and the Suburbs: Interior and Landscape, Contrasts and Analogies Arthur Ruegg -- Paris: Beistegul Apartment, or Horizons Deferred Anthony Vidler -- Ville d'Avray: Pavilions for Villa Church, 1927-29 -- Contents note continued: Paris: A Cardboard Promenade for the 1937 Exposition Internationale Romy Golan -- Paris: Ilot Insalubre no. 6, 1935-36 -- Neuilly: Maisons Jaoul and the Suburban Site Caroline Maniaque-Benton -- Africa -- Algiers: City, Infrastructure, and Landscape Antoine Picon -- Nemours, Algeria: Plan for City and Harbor, 1934 -- Ghardaia, Algeria: Seeing and Writing in a Desert Oasis Guillemette Morel Journel -- The Americas -- Argentina: The Pampa's Sublime, or the Geographical Gaze Jorge Francisco Liernur -- Buenos Aires: Urban Plans, 1929-49 -- Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasilia: Le Corbusier and the Brazilian Landscape Carlos Eduardo Comas -- Rio de Janeiro: Ministry of Education and Health, 1936-45 -- Rio de Janeiro: University Campus, 1936 -- Rio de Janeiro: Filming Landscape Sequences, or Scale, Time, and Movement Claude Prelorenzo -- Zapallar, Chile: Maison Errazuriz, 1930 -- New York City: Discovering the Land of the Timid Mardges Bacon -- Contents note continued: New York City: United Nations Headquarters, 1946-47 -- New York City: An Elusive Presence at The Museum of Modern Art Jean-Louis Cohen -- Cambridge, Massachusetts: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 1959-63 -- Asia -- En Route to/from India: In the Sky with Sketchbooks Enrique Ramirez -- Chandigarh: Landscaping a New Capital Maristella Casciato -- Ahmedabad, India: Four Buildings, 1951-57 -- Baghdad: A Sport City That Might Have Been Mina Marefat -- Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 1954-59.
This volume examines Le Corbusier's relationship with the topographies of five continents, in essays by thirty of the formeost scholars of his work and with contemporary photographs by Richard Pare.