{"id":6088,"date":"2008-07-03T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T10:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2008-07-03T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T10:18:35","slug":"le-corbusier-le-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/read\/books\/le-corbusier-le-grand\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Corbusier Le Grand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greats of architecture, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Le_Corbusier\" target=\"_blank\">Le Corbusier<\/a>, now has an enormous monograph available. At 768 pages with 1000 colour illustrations and 1000 black and white illustrations, it might take a while to get through it, but man, I think it would be worth the time spent.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier (1887\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1965), one of Modernism&#8217;s most influential architects, urban planners, and theorists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Approximately 2,000 images and documents, many previously unpublished, feature his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture as well as sketches, archival photographs, and personal correspondence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Rarely seen photographs and correspondence shed new light on Le Corbusier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relationships with Josephine Baker, Eileen Gray, Fernand L&eacute;ger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Prouv&eacute;, and many others <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>$200.00, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phaidon.com\/Default.aspx\/Web\/le-corbusier-le-grand-9780714846682\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Buy it here.<\/a><br \/>\n(or for $126.00, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0714846686?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=tsdr5678-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0714846686\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greats of architecture, Le Corbusier, now has an enormous monograph available. At 768 pages with 1000 colour illustrations and 1000 black and white illustrations, it might take a while to get through it, but man, I think it would be worth the time spent. A spectacular visual biography of the life and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[245,240,254,241],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20355,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/20355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}