Flora Samuel

Le Corbusier

Architect and Feminist

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book will cover Le Corbusier's upbringing and training, both of which were formative in his adoption of the principles which influenced his architecture and art. Examining his opinions and style, it will set these in the context of the architectural and general cultural atmosphere of his time, covering issues of gender and religion. Besides the theoretical and aesthetic considerations, it will cover relevant aspects of his private life such as his personal relationships, which have barely been explored before as no biography has been written.

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Dieses Buch untersucht erstmals, welchen bedeutenden Einfluss der Feminismus auf Le Corbusiers Arbeit hatte. Der Band enthält eine Fülle neuer Erkenntnisse und Theorien über diese viel bewunderte und verehrte Schlüsselfigur in der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Besprochen wird Le Corbusiers Erziehung und Ausbildung im Zusammenhang mit der kulturellen Atmosphäre seiner Zeit, wobei auch Fragen zu Geschlecht und Religion Beachtung finden. "Le Corbusier: Architect and Feminist" enthüllt aber nicht nur Aspekte von Le Corbusiers Privatleben, sondern auch seiner persönlichen Beziehungen, die bislang kaum erforscht wurden, da es keine Biographie gibt. Auch schreibt der Autor hier zum ersten Mal über ein bisher unentdeckt und unveröffentlicht gebliebenes Werk von Le Corbusier und leistet damit einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur bestehenden Literatur über diesen großen Architekten.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780470847473
• ISBN-10: 0470847476
• Artikelnr.: 12536984

Autorenporträt

FLORA SAMUEL is an architect and a lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, where she teaches design and history. She has written widely on the subject of Le Corbusier and is interested in unearthing aspects of his work that other researchers have ignored or discounted. Previous publications include Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier, written with Sarah Menin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. Illustration Credits. Preface. Introduction. PART ONE: REAL. Chapter 1. Intimate Relationships. Marie Charlotte Amélie Jeanneret-Perret: his mother. Yvonne Gallis: his wife Intimate Relations Josephine Baker
Marguerite Tjader Harris
Minette De Silva. Conclusion. Chapter 2. Professional Relationships. Women Abroad. Women at Work. Little Paris Birds
Married women
Women Writers. Women Clients. Villa Meyer
Villa Stein de Monzie
Maison de Mandrot
Heidi Weber House. Summary. Women Collaborators. Le Corbusier's 'best propagandists'
Intellectual support. Women Designers. Charlotte Perriand
Eileen Gray
Jane Drew. Conclusion. Chapter 3. Feminism, fashion and physical culture. Feminism in France at the beginning of the twentieth century. Feminism and Physic al Culture. The Anti-Corset league
Dance
Sport. Fashion. Fashionable society
Paul Poiret and the development of a new feminine aesthetic
Male adornment
Fashion magazines
Fashion and furniture. Conclusion. PART TWO: IDEAL. Chapter 4. Orphism and the quest for harmonious unity. Origins of Le Corbusier's interest in Orphism. Catharism
Rabelais and Cervantes
Education and Self-Education
Synthesis. Orphism. Pythagoras
Plato and the Union of Opposites
Alchemy
Pico della Mirandola
Summary. Orphism and the questioning of sexual roles in Early Twentieth Century Paris. Joséphin Péladan
Guillaume Apollinaire
André Breton and the Surrealists
Jean Cocteau
Summary. Conclusion. Chapter 5. Women in the art of Le Corbusier Tools of Unity. Symbolism. The exploitation of physical response in the pursuit of spiritual change
Geometry
Colour. The artistic representation of women in Le Corbusier's milieu. Women of the East. The emergence of the numinous woman in Le Corbusier's painted work. Union of Opposites. Woman and the sea
Woman and the shell
Woman and music
All seeing woman
Ubu
La cathédrale de Sens
Siren
Taureau/Icône. The Poem of the Right Angle 1947-1953. Sun and water, man and woman
Flesh
Fusion: male and female
Fusion: Body and Spirit
Woman and enlightenment
Mary
Love. Conclusion. Chapter 6. The cult of woman and the religious architecture of Le Corbusier. La Sainte Baume. Background to the project
The site
Mary Magdalene
The Basilica
Permanent City
The Museum
The Theatre
The Park
Summary. Ronchamp. Building and Body
The Ear
The Vase
The Marys
East Door
Summary. Conclusion. Chapter 7. Sexual Harmony and the Urbanism of Le Corbusier. Sex and Planning. The Radiant City. The spiritual home incarnate. Conclusion. Conclusion. Selected Bibliography. Index.

Rezensionen

"...compelling reading...you will find much here to enjoy..." (Architecture Today, April 2004)