The Le Corbusier Guide presents the architecture of Le Corbusier. The focus is on Paris given that it is his adopted city and the place where he came of age. Within its environs is a representative sample of his built work. It contains most of his purist houses; and an early foray away from the crisp surfaces of Purism. This itinerary follows the outlines of Le Corbusiers lifes work. Beginning at his birthplace in La Chaux-de-Fonds; Switzerland; the route continues to Paris; to the perimeter of France; and finally to the international scene architects; architecture; Paris. Also presented are Le Corbusiers work in Switzerland; Belgium; Germany; Italy; United States; Argentina; Brazil; Tunisia; Iraq; Japan; USSR; and India. The itinerary includes not only the buildings but also the process of getting from one to the next. On the ""open road"" it is a pleasure to remember Le Corbusiers own joy of self-propulsion in the automobile; efficiency; and speed in the train; and the thrill of flight as he experienced it with the poet of flight; Antoine de Saint Exupery. All these mimetic pleasures are ancillary to the experience of the buildings in situ in their complex relationship to local landscape; national spirit; and international vision.
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