Constructed Standards. Le Corbusier's Architectural Philosophy.
PURennes| N° d'inventaire | 23469 |
| Format | 17 x 21 |
| Détails | 324 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Rennes, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782753581036 |
Le Corbusier is an architect who not only builds, but who never ceases to explain how one should build. Capitalizing on the strength and coherence of Corbusier's thought, this book examines the architect's theoretical work through the prism of one of its most distinctive "colorations," namely its fundamentally normative dimension. Through a patient and detailed study of the architect's texts, the global and paradoxical philosophical vision of one of the great creators of modernity is rendered in the multiplicity of its dimensions and in the complexity of his project. Thus, this book allows us to revisit anew many recurring questions about the architect: accusations of dogmatism, blind application of recipes insensitive to the singularity of contexts or uses, authoritarianism, formulation of a functionalist doctrine, etc. Without falling into an exercise in sterile admiration, it is a matter of doing justice to a rich and complex experience of thought, by showing in particular that Le Corbusier's career forms a living system, making room for what exceeds the procedures of standardization, thus drawing the singular face of an attempt at normative production of the non-standard.
Le Corbusier is an architect who not only builds, but who never ceases to explain how one should build. Capitalizing on the strength and coherence of Corbusier's thought, this book examines the architect's theoretical work through the prism of one of its most distinctive "colorations," namely its fundamentally normative dimension. Through a patient and detailed study of the architect's texts, the global and paradoxical philosophical vision of one of the great creators of modernity is rendered in the multiplicity of its dimensions and in the complexity of his project. Thus, this book allows us to revisit anew many recurring questions about the architect: accusations of dogmatism, blind application of recipes insensitive to the singularity of contexts or uses, authoritarianism, formulation of a functionalist doctrine, etc. Without falling into an exercise in sterile admiration, it is a matter of doing justice to a rich and complex experience of thought, by showing in particular that Le Corbusier's career forms a living system, making room for what exceeds the procedures of standardization, thus drawing the singular face of an attempt at normative production of the non-standard.