Le Corbusier. Von der eleganten Lösung zum offenen Werk
Beschreibung:
Bruno Reichlin, geboren 1941, ist Architekt, Architekturhistoriker und -theoretiker. Neben seinen Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeiten führte er bis Mitte der 1980er-Jahre zusammen mit Fabio Reinhart ein Architekturbüro in Lugano, das einen wegweisenden Beitrag zur internationalen Architekturdebatte geleistet hat.
Catherine Dumont d'Ayot ist Dozentin am Departement Architektur der ETH Zürich. Neben ihren Lehraufträgen engagiert sie sich in Ausstellungs-, Publikations- und Architekturprojekten.
Bruno Reichlin ranks among the world's most distinguished architectural theorists. His occupation with protagonists of 20th-century architecture - such as Eileen Gray, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and, above all, Le Corbusier - and their work is guided by a method that looks at the characteristics of a building as well as at its theoretical foundations. Reichlin's writings and his own built work as a practicing architect is marked by a deep understanding for how buildings materialize signs and symbols and by a referential framework that includes also literature, film and visual art.
This book collects Reichlin's thirteen essays on Le Corbusier, written over the period of four decades. Taking as examples the villas La Roche, Mandrot, and Savoye; Harvard University's Carpenter Center for Visual Arts; the Petite Maison on Lake Geneva; and the project for a hospital in Venice, he explores aspects of Le Corbusier's creativity to reveal underlying principles and their manifestation in the realized buildings. Rich archival materials as well as analytical plans and diagrams round out the volume.