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Le Corbusier's Formative Years: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds
In Le Corbusier's Formative Years we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of documents that show every facet of the formative years of this influential architect.
"There is much in this fine volume for anyone interested not just in architecture, but in the roots of human creativity and in the origins of the most powerful artistic current of our century. . . . This book is a life's work of scholarship. It has been well spent."— Toronto Globe and Mail
"There is much in this fine volume for anyone interested not just in architecture, but in the roots of human creativity and in the origins of the most powerful artistic current of our century. . . . This book is a life's work of scholarship. It has been well spent."— Toronto Globe and Mail
588 pages, Hardcover
First published June 9, 1997
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December 15, 2024
An excellent book if you are looking to learn a bit more about Le Corbusier first years as a student!
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