HISTORY OF ART 782 (Le Corbusier) SCHEDULE
Prof. David B. Brownlee Spring 2003
dbrownle@sas.upenn.edu
OFFICE HOURS: Thursdays 3-5 in Jaffe 106. Please make appointments in advance in the History of Art office.
J 14 Introduction. Villa Savoye video.
21 C-E Jeanneret before Le Corbusier
28 Between the wars
F 4 After the Second World War
11 The Ouevre complète
18 Towards a New Architecture
25 City of Tomorrow
M 4 The Modulor
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25 student reports
A 1 student reports
8 student reports
15 student reports
22 student reports
HISTORY OF ART 782 (Le Corbusier) RESERVE BOOK LIST
Prof. David B. Brownlee Spring 2003
dbrownle@sas.upenn.edu
All these books are on reserve in the Fisher Fine Arts Library. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available for purchase at the Pennsylvania Book Center.
Arts Council of Great Britain. Le Corbusier : Architect of the Century. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1987. [NA 1053 J4 A4 1987]
Geoffrey Baker. Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form. London: Routledge, 2001. [NA 1053 J4 B3 1984]
Geoffrey Baker. Le Corbusier, The Creative Search: The Formative Years of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. London: Routledge, 2000. [NA 1053 J4 B34 1996]
Willy Boesiger and Oscar Stonorov (eds.). Oeuvre complete. 8 vols. Reprint edition. Zurich: Editions d’architecture, 1973-1977. [NA 1053 J4 A2 1973]
Darlene A Brady. Le Corbusier: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1985. [NA 1053 J4 B73 1985]
Tim Benton. Villas of Le Corbusier, 1920-1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. [NA 1053 J4 B3713 1987]
H. Allen Brooks (ed.). Le Corbusier Archive. 32 vols. New York and London: Garland; Paris: Foundation Le Corbusier, 1982. [NA 2707L4 A4 1982d]
H. Allen Brooks (ed.). Le Corbusier. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. [NA 1053 J4 L36 1987]
H. Allen Brooks (ed.). Le Corbusier’s Formative Years: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux de Fonds. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1997. [NA 1053 J4 B76 1997]
Centre Georges Pompidou. Le Corbusier; Une encyclopédie. Paris: Centre George Pompidou, 1987. [NA 1053 L4 L42 1987]
Jean-Louis Cohen. Le Corbusier and the Mystique of the USSR. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. [NA 1053 J4 C5813 1992]
Beatriz Colomina. Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994. [NA 2543 M37 C65 1994]
* William Curtis. Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms. New York: Rizzoli, 1986. [NA 1053 J4 C8 1986]
Robert Fishman. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982. [HT 161 F67 1982]
* Kenneth Frampton. Le Corbusier. London: Thames and Hudson, 2001. [NA 1053 J4 F73 2001]
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Kenneth Frampton (ed.). Oppositions 15/16 (1978) and 19/20 (1980). Two double issues devoted to Le Corbusier.
* Le Corbusier. Vers une architecture. Paris: G. Crès, 1924. Translated as Towards a New Architecture. Reprint edition: New York: Dover, 1986. [NA 2520 L3613 1986]
* Le Corbusier. Urbanisme. Paris: G. Crès et cie., 1925. Translated as The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning. Reprint edition: London: Architectural Press, 1947. [711 J342.EE]
* Le Corbusier. Modulor. Paris: Editions de l’architecture, 1948. Modular 2. Paris: Editions de l’architecture, 1955. Translated as The Modulor I and II. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980. [NA 2760 J413 1980]
Le Corbusier. Essential Le Corbusier: L’esprit Nouveau Articles. Oxford and Boston: Architectural Press, 1998. [NA 1053 J4 A4 1998]
Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier Talks with Students from the Schools of Architecture. Tr. Pierre Chase. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. [NA 2560 L4129713 1999]
Le Corbusier. The Final Testament of Pere Corbu: A Translation and Interpretation of "Mise au point." New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. [NA 1053 J4 A2 1997]
Le Corbusier Sketchbooks. 4 vols. New York: Architectural History Foundation; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981. [NC 248 J4 A4 1981]
Vikramaditya Prakash. Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. [NA 1508 C44 P73 2002]
Max Risselada (ed.). Raumplan versus Plan Libre: Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, 1919-1930. New York: Rizzoli, 1988. [NA 7325 R3813 1988]
Peter Serenyi (ed.). Le Corbusier in Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1974 [NA 1053 J4 S47]
Alexander Tzonis. Le Corbusier: The Poetics of Machine and Metaphor. New York: Universe, 2001. [NA 1053 J4 T96 2001]
Stanislaus von Moos. Le Corbusier: Elements of a Synthesis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1979. [NA 1053 J4 M613]
Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rϋegg (eds.) Esprit Nouveau: Le Corbusier et l’industrie, 1920-25. Berlin: Ernst und Sohn, 1987 [NX 2 E83 E8614 1987]
Stanislaus von Moos. Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Architectural Studies, Interiors, Painting and Photography, 1907-1922. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. [N 6853 J43 A4 2002]
* Adolf Max Vogt. Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward and Archaeology of Modernism. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. [MA 1053 J4 V6413 1998]
Russell Walden (ed.). The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977. [NA 1053 J4 o63]