NEW YORK _ This formidable picture book traces the monumental career of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, the prophet of modern architecture and city planning known as Le Corbusier.
Weighty at 20 pounds, the bulky volume encompasses 2,000 photos of Le Corbusier's innovative structures and controversial building schemes, excerpts of his sketchbooks and treatises, examples of his art works and personal letters, with English translations from the French.
Striver, sycophant, savant, "Corbu" was an architect-colossus in the august company of German Bauhaus innovators Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe and American Frank Lloyd …
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