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Article: Bacon, Mardges Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid.(Brief Article)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- January 1, 2002
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Cambridge: MIT Press 320 pp., $59.95, ISBN: 0262024799 Publication Date: April 2001
More than any other art form, architecture creates ideas that we have to live with. The contemporary built environment owes much to French modernist architect Le Corbusier (nee Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), whose combination of Platonic forms, steel-skeleton engineering, exterior glass-facing, and interior flow created (along with the Bauhaus school) the international style. Architectural historian Mardges Bacon has produced an exhaustively researched account of Le Corbusier's influential two-month American lecture tour in 1935, within which she weaves an important new thesis: that ...