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Le Corbusier: A Study of the Decorative Art Movement in Germany
Le Corbusier A Study of the Decorative Art Movement in Germany Author:Mateo Kries, Alexander von Vegesack In its first-ever English translation, this 1912 essay was the first — publication for a young Swiss-born architect named Charles-Edouard — Jeanneret-Gris - better known today by the pseudonym he adopted in — 1920, Le Corbusier. Always a prolific writer, and always interested in the — decorative arts, the young Le Corbusier lucidly analyzed the Germ... more »an
applied arts movement and its main figures, including Peter Behrens,
for whom he had worked in 1910-1911. This historic, extensively
illustrated edition puts Le Corbusier's text into the context of politics
and architecture on the eve of World War I, and reveals fascinating
connections between European history and the biography of this