This revelatory study is the most unexpected and vital piece of LeCorbusier

This revelatory study is the most unexpected and vital piece of LeCorbusier scholarship to appear in years. Adolf Max Vogt looks to the early, formative years of the architect's life as a key to understanding his maturepractice, taking aim at such fundamental riddles as 'Where did his design vocabularycome from? ' and 'How was his aesthetic sense formed? 'Vogt's investigation of LC'searly life and education not only reveals important, previously unacknowledgedinfluences on specific projects such as the League of Nations headquarters and theVilla Savoye, but also suggests why LC throughout his career preferred to liftbuildings above the ground, to give them the appearance of 'floating. ' By uncoveringcrucial dimensions of LC's early life and resurrecting primary documents and sourcematerials overlooked by other scholars, this book changes the face of LCstudies. Uncovering crucial dimensions of Le Corbusier's early life and resurrecting primary documents and source materials overlooked by other scholars. First page is lightly water stained. Blue remainder mark on bottom text edge. Binding is tight no interior marks.