Journey to the East

Name: Journey to the East
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ISBN: 9780262620680

ISBN-10: 0262620685

ISBN-13: 9780262620680

Edition: N/A

Authors: Le Corbusier, Ivan Zaknic, Nicole Pertuiset, Nicole Pertuiset

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This is the legendary travel diary that the 24-year-old Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his first journey through central and eastern Europe. In a flood of highly personal impressions and visual notations, it records his first contact with the vernacular architecture that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life and with the monuments he most admired, the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon. "'Very often, I left the Acropolis burdened by a heavy premonition, not daring to imagine that one day I would have to create.' Such words, are moving from any aspiring architect; from Le Corbusier they are an inspiration." -- Progessive Architecture An this…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/20/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 7.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English