Article: Le Corbusier in all his contradictions BOOKS & IDEAS

Witold Rybczynski The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
12-06-2008
Le Corbusier in all his contradictions BOOKS & IDEAS
Byline: Witold Rybczynski The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES

Le Corbusier: A Life By Nicholas Fox Weber

Illustrated. 821 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $45.
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Le Corbusier Le Grand Illustrated.

768 pages. Phaidon. $200.

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Years ago, as an architecture student traveling in Europe, I sought out Le Corbusier's home in Paris. I had the address from his books, over which I had pored for hours in the university library. Some of his writings were more than 40 years old, but their rousing rhetoric still made architecture seem more like ...

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