{"product_id":"le-corbusier-le-grand-first-edition","title":"Le Corbusier Le Grand (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOHEN, Jean-Louis \u0026amp; BENTON, Tim\u003c\/strong\u003e (eds.; Phaidon Editors). \u003cem\u003eLe Corbusier Le Grand.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Phaidon Press, 2008. 2 vols.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eElephant Folio (32 × 42 cm). Vol. I: Pictorial colour-illustrated boards, 72 pp. Vol. II: Brown paper boards stamped in black (Documents volume, with English translations), 767 pp. 788 pp total. Illustrated slipcase. Approximately 2,000 images and documents throughout, many previously unpublished — major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, furniture, sketches, archival photographs, and personal correspondence. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eCharles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965) — who renamed himself Le Corbusier in 1920, choosing the pseudonym from a branch of his mother's family — was the most consequential architect and urban theorist of the twentieth century: the man whose proposals for the complete demolition and rebuilding of central Paris, whose housing blocks in Marseille and Chandigarh, whose chapel at Ronchamp, whose formulations about the five points of a new architecture, whose theoretical writings — \u003cem\u003eVers une architecture\u003c\/em\u003e (1923), \u003cem\u003eUrbanisme\u003c\/em\u003e (1925), \u003cem\u003eLa Ville radieuse\u003c\/em\u003e (1933) — shaped the built environment of every city in the developed world for half a century, whether the architects who shaped it had read him or not. His influence extended to people who disagreed with him profoundly, because his ideas were clear and forceful enough to require disagreement. He remains the most debated figure in the history of modern architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eA book grand in size is the appropriate vehicle for a life of this scale. Phaidon's \u003cem\u003eLe Corbusier Le Grand\u003c\/em\u003e is a spectacular visual biography of the life and work of one of modernism's most influential architects, urban planners, and theorists. The first volume — the visual biography — moves chronologically through Le Corbusier's life and work from his Swiss childhood and early training under Auguste Perret in Paris to the late masterworks of the 1950s and 1960s, deploying approximately 2,000 images from archives that include the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris and collections worldwide. Rare photographs and letters shed new light on Le Corbusier's relationships with Josephine Baker, Eileen Gray, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Prouvé, and many others — an aspect of his biography that the architecture monograph tradition has largely left unexplored, and that this volume addresses with considerable documentary thoroughness. The second volume presents the source documents — correspondence, manuscripts, theoretical texts — with English translations, giving the set a scholarly apparatus that complements the visual argument of the first.\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe introductory essay is by Jean-Louis Cohen, France's most authoritative architectural historian and critic — a scholar whose own monographic work on Le Corbusier, on modern architecture in France, and on the relationship between architecture and political power makes him the ideal voice for this enterprise. The chapter introductions are by Tim Benton, Professor Emeritus at the Open University and one of the leading Le Corbusier scholars in the English-speaking world, whose archival research into Le Corbusier's early career and his theoretical writings has defined the field for three decades.\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine. \u003c\/strong\u003eBoth volumes present as new. Slipcase shows some mild shelf markings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This is a very large and extremely heavy two-volume set (\u0026gt;10kg). Additional postage costs will apply. Please contact us for a shipping quote before purchase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store.\u003cbr\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000623\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean-Louis Cohen \u0026 Tim Benton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269605564659,"sku":"1110002994760","price":400.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_b36ea1e3-0470-4ab2-afd5-ad765f8f3a9a.png?v=1781849276","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/le-corbusier-le-grand-first-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}