Le Corbusier’s Practical Aesthetic of the City

Name: Le Corbusier’s Practical Aesthetic of the City
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Le Corbusiers Practical Aesthetic of the CityThe treatise La Construction des villes of 1910/11\nAuthor(s): Christoph Schnoor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472445643, 978-1472445643\nSynopsis\nSet within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier. This volume makes the important theoretical work available for the first time in English, offering an interpretation as to how much and in what way his essai may have influenced his later work. \n\nDealing with questions of aesthetic urbanism, La Construction des Villes shows Le Corbusiers intellectual influences in the field of urbanism. Discontent that the script was not sufficiently avant-garde, he abandoned it soon after it was written in the early 20th century. It was only in the late 1970s that American historian H. Allen Brooks discovered 250 pages of the forgotten m.