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Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier is probably the most famous and certainly the most controversial architect of the twentieth century. His impact on the urban fabric around us and on the way we live has been gigantic because of the richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture. The distinguished critic and historian Kenneth Frampton reexamines all these facets of his artistic and philosophical worldview in the light of recent discoveries.
Le Corbusier by Kenneth Frampton

Le Corbusier Ideas and Forms

Le Corbusier; Ideas and Forms is well written in a style that is easily understandable. Ideas and Forms is direct and to the point, no intellectual abstactions or highly theoretical tangents. It is the thorough and inspiring history of Corbusier's creative life from beginning to end.
Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms

Le Corbusier in Germany

Le Corbusier’s notebooks pertaining to his travels in Germany precede the Orient ones, spanning the period from April to May 1911. His travels in Germany, touching on Munich, Berlin, Halle, Naumburg, Ratisbon, Augsburg, enabled Le Corbusier to meet personalities who would have a profound influence on him: among others Theodore Fischer, representing the most nonconformist trend in German architecture, Baron Gunther von Pechmann, William Ritter, a critic and a man of letters, and last Peter Behrens.
Le Corbusier: Les Voyages d'Allemagne

Le Corbusier: Poetics of Machine and Metaphor

A new addition to a series acclaimed for its exceptional authority, Le Corbusier presents the master architect’s oeuvre in relation to the revolutionary global developments of the twentieth century. Written by Alexander Tzonis, one of today’s leading experts on Le Corbusier and his work, the book demonstrates how Le Corbusier was a creator who conceived, enticed, and shaped many of his developments.
Le Corbusier: Poetics of Machine and Metaphor

Library of Congress

A handsomely illustrated tribute to the Library of Congress building, published to coincide with its one hundredth anniversary. Arguably the most beautifully decorated building in the United States, the Library of Congress building (recently renamed the Jefferson Building) is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary this year after an eighty million dollar restoration that returned it to its original state.
Library of Congress: Art and Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. In fact, his career was so long and his accomplishments so varied it can be difficult still to grasp the full range of Wright's achievement. In this new study, Wright scholar Kathryn Smith does just that, exploring the grace and beauty found in all facets of Wright's work: from office desks and chairs to his first residential commissions, from magazine cover designs to major public buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Look of Architecture

What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture, he makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts. Style is the language of architecture, Rybczynski writes, and fashion represents the wide and swirling cultural currents that shape and direct that language.
Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski

Adolf Loos

Viennese architect Adolf Loos was one of the most important pioneers of the European Modern Movement. Born in 1870, he was an early opponent of the decorative trends of Art Nouveau, believing instead that architecture devoid of ornament represented pure and lucid thought.
Adolf Loos

LOT/EK: Urban Scan

The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a museum, or a restaurant. In the process, they question our relation to the industrial environment and the artificiality of the urban landscape.
LOT/EK: Urban Scan by Ada Tolla