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Terms and conditions applyJourney to the East
Le Corbusier and Ivan Zaknic
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Format: Book
Pages: 270
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: Nov 2007
Stock Code: 62962
Binding: Paperback
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Journey to the East is the legendary travel diary that the24 year old Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe in 1911. In a flood of highly personal impressions and visual notations, it records his first contact with the vernacular architecture that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life and his first sight of the monuments he most admired: the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon.
Journeyto the Eastis very much a story of awakening and a voyage of discoveries, recording a seven month journey that took Le Corbusier from Berlin through Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Istanbul, Athos, Athens, Naples and Rome, among other places. Le Corbusier considered this journey the most significant of his life; the compulsion he felt to record images and impressions established a practice he would continue for the rest of his career. For the next five decades, he would fill notebooks with ideas and sketches; he never stopped deriving inspiration from the memories of his first contact with the East.
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