Book description
This unique appraisal of the famous Swiss architect's major works have now been expanded to include two more buildings. The Villa Shodhan and the Pavilion Suisse round out the coverage of Le Corbusier's significant works. The author critically examines Le Corbusier's achievements helping student and professional alike to appreciate the…
Why read it?
1 author picked Le Corbusier as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I remember Geoffrey Baker’s lectures about space, movement, and light in Le Corbusier's buildings from my own student days.
His infectious enthusiasm is captured in his book, with his own clear sketches and diagrams.
Baker’s analysis has been a lasting influence on my own work, encouraging me to experience moving around and through architecture, and where this is not possible to imagine that experience from drawings and photographs.
Check out Baker’s Design Strategies in Architecture: An Approach to the Analysis of Form, too.
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