Le Corbusier and His Students: Dialogues (Interviews with Masters from Abroad)

Author: Le Corbusier Foundation (France)
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Features: Le Corbusier, a name that no student of modern architecture can avoid, just as philosophers cannot bypass Kant. Corbusier was a seed that gave rise to the fiery modernist architecture of the 20th century. Due to his speculative system marked by Gnostic influences, his thoughts, while full of passion, were complex, paradoxical, and contradictory. Le Corbusier and His Students: Dialogues is his second attempt (in the books he wrote as an architect after the war, he repeatedly attempted this with increasing conviction) to rewrite the story—under the light of failure—to explain and reorganize his theories, biography, and history. Corbusier consistently strove to integrate his experiences into a whole. He never abandoned any of his early beliefs or sources, always revising, reorganizing, and reconfiguring his ever-expanding destiny to form a cohesive whole and gain some historical support. Such a history not only proves the value of his existence but also makes him inevitable. This Le Corbusier and His Students: Dialogues introduces these tasks in an orderly manner, describes the state of the world through history, and, through a series of intentions and tools, points people toward how to improve it.