WILLIAM J R CURTIS IRR alee Beh em @PHAIDON|LE CORBUSIER IDEAS AND FORMS ROLL ary Ce eee eee eed ere ees dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture, ae eee ee eas pee enter enn ea eee ees visionary and a writer of polemics, whose ideas er eon Ree ee eee eee ene ee eee comprehensive and unbiased survey that puts eee eee eee Ce ee eee cee author documents individual projects in detail, Se eee ad to his philosophy of life, to his urban visions, to his art and to the cultural predicaments of his times. Pee eee en cons abstraction and synthesis, showing how he created potent architectural vocabulary based on a limited range of types and elements, and how he used i to Peer ete cee ne Close study of all Le Corbusier's major buildings, ee ee ee eae ee Ces practical and to give institutions and ideologies Bees ea eee eee inspiration in nature and in architectural tradition. William J R Curtis studied at the Courtauld Insti- tute of Art, London, and Harvard University, and hhas taught the history of architecture and theories ee ee) States, Australia and Asia. His books include enn rent ee) ee Rey ‘Modern Architecture since 1900 was first published Sa ee Cm He received the Founder's Award of the Society Peete a he was the recipient of both the critics’ award of the Comité Internationale des Critiques d’Archi and the CICA award for best article of archit criticism world-wide in the period 1982-85. His ‘monograph Balkrishna Doshi: an Architecture for eee ae ee Crees eee