Le Corbusier's Formative Years
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds
By H. Allen Brooks
(University of Chicago Press, Paperback, 9780226075822, 588pp.)
Publication Date: May 1999
Categories: Artists, Architects, Photographers, Individual Architect
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Description
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"
"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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