There are coffee-table books, and there are books the size of coffee tables. Phaidon Press' Le Corbusier: Le Grand weighs 20 pounds and offers 2,000 images between its vaultlike covers.

Two recently published books assert that famed French architect Le Corbusier was a fascist and Nazi sympathizer with links to France’s World War II Vichy regime. Both books—Xavier de Jarcy’s ...

Both books explore Le Corbusier ’s involvement in fascism while in Paris in the 1920s, as well as his relationship with the leader of France's Revolutionary Fascist Party, Pierre Winter.

Now, you can build your own personal “Punjab and Haryana High Court”—one of the structures in Le Corbusier’s Capitol Complex—out of paper with the new book Le Corbusier Paper Models: 10 ...

Phaidon editors. 768 pages. Phaidon Press. $200 This formidable picture book traces the career of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, the prophet of modern architecture and city planning known as Le Corbusier.

In his seminal work “Toward an Architecture” (1923), Le Corbusier compelled his contemporaries to forget the “kissing doves” of old architecture and embrace the beauty of the machinery and ...

For starters, Le Corbusier was not his real name. (He adopted a version of a relative’s name as a nom de plume when he started an architecture magazine in 1920).

Villa Savoye in Poissy, France, completed in 1929, affirmed Le Corbusier's role as a star architect and ushered in the International Style. (Anthony Flint) Le Corbusier, one of the 20th century's ...

Le Corbusier painted one--signed with his birth name, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. Two others he borrowed from his collaborators in the Purist movement, a post-Cubist style emphasizing classic ...

Le Corbusier`s technique of dropping illustrations within the text, and cinematic-like montage, he perceptibly notes, does not suggest integration, as much as `Merzbild of juxtaposed fragments`. Paul ...