Le Corbusier: Early Works at La Chaux-de-Fonds

by Alexander Tzonis

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312475829
• ISBN13: 9780312475826
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 11.9"

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15 early works (1905-1916) illustrated in color

Architectural projects illustrated by excellent photos mostly in color; also plans, sections, elevations, hard line axonometric views, hand sketches of excellent quality, and short text descriptions; ISBN: 0312475837 & 0312475829 and ISBN: 0856708925 only. CONTENTS: 7 Foreword 9 The Early Villas of Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds by Geoffrey Baker COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS 8 Art School Drawings 26 Villa Fallet 30 Villa Stotzer 34 Villa Jaquemet 36 Villa Jeanneret-Perret 40 Villa Favre-Jacot 44 Villa Schwob 48 La Scala Cinema PROJECTS 50 Villa Fallet 58 Villa Stotzer 66 Villa Jaquemet 74 Villa Jeanneret-Perret 82 Villa Favre-Jacot 92 Villa Schwob 102 La Scala Cinema 110 From Feeling to Reason: Jeanneret and Regionalism by Jacques Gubler 120 In Time with the Swiss Watchmakers by Jacques Gubler 128 List of Early Projects in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Lode 130 Selected Bibliography 131 Résumés in French, German, Spanish and Italian