Corbusier The City of Refuge, Paris 1929/33

Name: Corbusier The City of Refuge, Paris 1929/33
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ISBN: 9780226791340

ISBN-10: 0226791343

ISBN-13: 9780226791340

Edition: 1988

Authors: Brian Brace Taylor, Kenneth Frampton

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The City of Refuge complex--commissioned by the Salvation Army as part of its program to transform social outcasts into spiritually renewed workers--represents a significant confluence of design principles, technological experiments, and attitudes on reform. It also provides rare insights into the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects, Le Corbusier. Brian Brace Taylor draws on extensive archival research to reconstruct each step of the architect's attraction to the commission, his design process and technological innovations, the social and philosophical compatibility of the Salvation Army with Le Corbusier's own ideas for urban planning, and finally, the many…

Book details

List price: $77.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/22/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.95" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Preface Introduction




A Sacred Asylum


The ""Grand Scheme"" of General Booth


The Salvation Army in France Ideological Sympathies between Le Corbusier and the Salvation Army



The Project and its Variations Typological Precedents Finances and the Choice of an Architect Conception of the Project Design Phases


The Four Preliminary Projects Definitive Proposal Alterations Due to Regulations



A ""Progressive"" Building Site?


The Structure of the Citeacute;


The Curtain-Wall Glass Bricks Ceram