PRECISIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITY PLANNING

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his death (August 27, 2015), one of Le Corbusier's most significant books becomes available again in English. The Precisions, as the book is commonly known, emerged from a spontaneous and exuberant series of 10 lectures Le C orbusier gave in Buenos Aires in 1929, reflecting a new maturity in his thinking. They contain some of his most compelling aphorisms , covering technique as the basis of architecture, the human scale in design, furniture, the private house, apartments and office bu ildings, ...[Read more]