Le Corbusier: An Atlas Of Modern Landscape
When the Museum of Modern Art organized its 2013 retrospective on Le Corbusier, it chose landscape as its lens, recognizing that the architect's relationship to land, territory, and horizon was as formative as any building he ever designed. This volume is the exhibition's companion publication, and it arrives as a work of scholarship in its own right.
Structured as an atlas, the book traces Le Corbusier's movements across continents and decades, mapping how geography shaped his vision. Watercolors, sketches, photographs, paintings, and architectural models are gathered here not as illustration but as primary evidence of a restless, searching intelligence. The scope is genuinely global, reflecting a generation of international research conducted in the quarter-century since the Centre Pompidou's landmark catalogue.
- Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Documents the 2013 MoMA retrospective exhibition
- Organized thematically and geographically as an atlas
- Draws on Le Corbusier's watercolors, sketches, paintings, photographs, and architectural models
- Incorporates current global scholarship on Le Corbusier's practice
Le Corbusier worked across architecture, urbanism, painting, and writing for six decades. A book that holds all of those modes together, with landscape as the organizing idea, offers a perspective that monographs focused on individual buildings rarely can.
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Le Corbusier: An Atlas Of Modern Landscape
When the Museum of Modern Art organized its 2013 retrospective on Le Corbusier, it chose landscape as its lens, recognizing that the architect's relationship to land, territory, and horizon was as formative as any building he ever designed. This volume is the exhibition's companion publication, and it arrives as a work of scholarship in its own right.
Structured as an atlas, the book traces Le Corbusier's movements across continents and decades, mapping how geography shaped his vision. Watercolors, sketches, photographs, paintings, and architectural models are gathered here not as illustration but as primary evidence of a restless, searching intelligence. The scope is genuinely global, reflecting a generation of international research conducted in the quarter-century since the Centre Pompidou's landmark catalogue.
- Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Documents the 2013 MoMA retrospective exhibition
- Organized thematically and geographically as an atlas
- Draws on Le Corbusier's watercolors, sketches, paintings, photographs, and architectural models
- Incorporates current global scholarship on Le Corbusier's practice
Le Corbusier worked across architecture, urbanism, painting, and writing for six decades. A book that holds all of those modes together, with landscape as the organizing idea, offers a perspective that monographs focused on individual buildings rarely can.
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When the Museum of Modern Art organized its 2013 retrospective on Le Corbusier, it chose landscape as its lens, recognizing that the architect's relationship to land, territory, and horizon was as formative as any building he ever designed. This volume is the exhibition's companion publication, and it arrives as a work of scholarship in its own right.
Structured as an atlas, the book traces Le Corbusier's movements across continents and decades, mapping how geography shaped his vision. Watercolors, sketches, photographs, paintings, and architectural models are gathered here not as illustration but as primary evidence of a restless, searching intelligence. The scope is genuinely global, reflecting a generation of international research conducted in the quarter-century since the Centre Pompidou's landmark catalogue.
- Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Documents the 2013 MoMA retrospective exhibition
- Organized thematically and geographically as an atlas
- Draws on Le Corbusier's watercolors, sketches, paintings, photographs, and architectural models
- Incorporates current global scholarship on Le Corbusier's practice
Le Corbusier worked across architecture, urbanism, painting, and writing for six decades. A book that holds all of those modes together, with landscape as the organizing idea, offers a perspective that monographs focused on individual buildings rarely can.
