Stanislaus von Moos
Stanislaus von Moos is professor of modern art at the University of Zurich.
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Description: Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and...
MODERN HOUSES LOOK AS IF they are “ready to go,” like “boxes on mobile stilts,” if not like boats...
PublisherBard Graduate Center
Related print edition pages: pp.23-43
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00301.2
Description: Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and...
~The idea for an exhibition on the early work of Le Corbusier originated in the context of the remodeling of some formerly private rooms of the Villa Langmatt, a country house built by Karl Moser around 1900 in Baden, Switzerland, and now home to the Langmatt Museum. Given the mutual respect that Moser and Le Corbusier had for each other an informal display of some...
PublisherBard Graduate Center
Related print edition pages: pp.15-18
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00301.1
Description: Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and...
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00301
In his numerous writings, Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career. This intriguing book examines his nascent years as a designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922—the year he changed his name from Charles Edouard Jeanneret and established his identity as Le Corbusier. The contributors to the book offer in unprecedented detail an account of Le Corbusier’s formative years and the cultural, intellectual, and artistic concerns that absorbed him as a young artist in Switzerland and Paris.

From 1907 to 1922 Jeanneret learned the art and craft of architecture and design, and defined his own image as an artist. The book discusses the cultural climate of his Swiss hometown, La Chaux-de-Fonds; his early mentors, friends, and clients; his educational pursuits, including his self-designed Grand Tour; and his first successes as an architect and designer. More than 350 illustrations—including architectural drawings and models, watercolors, sketches, photographs, and furniture—show the range of young Le Corbusier’s work and illuminate the principal themes and issues of his formative years.
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Print publication date August 2002 (out of print)
Print ISBN 9780300093575
EISBN 9780300266252
Illustrations 466
Print Status out of print