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Article: Le Corbusier, Enigmatic Modernist.(Le Corbusier in Detail)(Book review)
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- Architectural Science Review
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- September 1, 2008
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Le Corbusier in Detail, by Flora Samuel, Architectural Press, Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK, 2007. 264pp, illus., index. Price [pounds sterling]24.99 Pbk.
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Half a century after the completion of his most influential works, Le Corbusier remains an enigma, a renaissance man of many accomplishments who wrote widely, painted and became ultimately famed for his architecture. A writer, journalist and apologist for Modernism, he was also an urban and social reformer who finally regarded himself as a failure for his inability to change the emerging modern world to accord with his utopian vision. His ...