Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid
by Bacon, Mardges
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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- 0262024799
- ISBN 13
- 9780262024792
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Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 406 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy. How Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States shaped his critique of the country and affected both his work and the diffusion of his ideas. Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States in 1935 is generally considered a failure because it produced no commissions. The experience nevertheless had a profound effect on him, both personally and professionally. Sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Le Corbusier promoted his ideas through a lecture tour, exhibition, and press conferences, as well as in meetings with industrialists, housing reformers, New Deal technocrats, and editors. His lectures were watershed events that advanced the cause of European modernism. Yet he returned to France empty-handed and published a bittersweet account, Quand les Cathédrales étaient blanches: Voyage au Pays des Timid Personnes (When the Cathedrals Were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People), which faulted America for lacking the courage to adopt his ideas. Record # 512055
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- Title
- Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid
- Author
- Bacon, Mardges
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0262024799
- ISBN 13
- 9780262024792
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge MA
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Memoirs, biography, , .
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