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Le Corbusier: A Life

The biography of one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century
Le Corbusier: A Life - The biography of one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century

Le Corbusier is one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.

In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism—vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning.

A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achievements and the age in which he lived.

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