Le Corbusier's Formative Years

Le Corbusier's Formative Years
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 548
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ISBN-10 : 0226075826
ISBN-13 : 9780226075822
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Download or read book Le Corbusier's Formative Years written by H. Allen Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Le Corbusier's Formative Years we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of documents that show every facet of the formative years of this influential architect. "There is much in this fine volume for anyone interested not just in architecture, but in the roots of human creativity and in the origins of the most powerful artistic current of our century. . . . This book is a life's work of scholarship. It has been well spent."—Toronto Globe and Mail


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