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Terms and conditions applyLe Corbusier's Hands
Andre Wogenscky
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Format: Book
Pages: 93
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: Apr 2006
Stock Code: 56557
Binding: Hardback
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Le Corbusier's Hands offers a poetic and personal portrait of Le Corbusier - a nuanced portrayal that is in contrast to the popular image of Le Corbusier the aloof modernist. The author knew Le Corbusier intimately for thirty years, first as his draughtsman and main assistant, later as his colleague and personal friend. In this book, written in the mid-1980s, Wogenscky remembers his mentor in a series of revealing personal statements and evocative reflections.
The book is a series of swift, deft chapters, one leading to the next, one memory of Le Corbusier opening into another. Appearing and reappearing like a leitmotif are Le Corbusier's hands - touching, taking, drawing, offering, closing, opening, grasping, releasing: "It was his hands that revealed him... They spoke all his feelings, all the vibrations of his inner life that his face tried to conceal." There is material on Le Corbusier's work, including the famous design of the chapel at Ronchamp and his ideas for high-density Units d'Habitation linked to the center of a "Radiant City".
The book is a series of swift, deft chapters, one leading to the next, one memory of Le Corbusier opening into another. Appearing and reappearing like a leitmotif are Le Corbusier's hands - touching, taking, drawing, offering, closing, opening, grasping, releasing: "It was his hands that revealed him... They spoke all his feelings, all the vibrations of his inner life that his face tried to conceal." There is material on Le Corbusier's work, including the famous design of the chapel at Ronchamp and his ideas for high-density Units d'Habitation linked to the center of a "Radiant City".
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