{"product_id":"toward-an-architecture-hardcover","title":"Toward an Architecture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLe Corbusier\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen \u003cbr\u003e Translation by John Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1923, \u003ci\u003eToward an Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans―such as \"the house is a machine for living in\"―and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJean-Louis Cohen (1949-2023) authored over 30 books on architectural history and was a preeminent authority on Le Corbusier.\u003c\/span\u003e John Goodman is a translator and art historian. He has rendered some thirty books from French into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChosen as a Favorite Book of 2007 by the Art and Architecture Critics of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A new translation by John Goodman with an introduction by the architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen will allow architecture buffs to experience Le Corbusier's manifesto in its full glory.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e—The New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Bursting with passion, wit and aphorisms . . . this seminal polemic is well worth reading (or rereading) for Le Corbusier's incisive analysis of early 20th Century architecture . . . Jean-Louis Cohen's scholarly introduction sheds fresh light. . .\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e—Chicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n358 pages\u003cbr\u003e 7 x 10 inches\u003cbr\u003e 249 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 978-0-89236-899-0\u003cbr\u003e hardcover\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Getty Publications\u003cbr\u003e Imprint: Getty Research Institute\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"GETTY TRUST PUBLICATIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67889374986519,"sku":"svw1792568335995","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0932\/8479\/4647\/files\/toward-an-architecture---hardcover_1.jpg?v=1792568341","url":"https:\/\/riverlyn.shop\/products\/toward-an-architecture-hardcover","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}