Toward an Architecture

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Frances Lincoln, 2008 - Architecture - 341 pages
This edition includes a new translation of the original text that preserves the design and compelling voice of the original, background notes on Corbusier's concepts and iconography and a scholarly introduction that reconstructs the production of the book, the origin of its ideas and its reception throughout the world.

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About the author (2008)

Jean-Louis Cohen is an architect & historian. He is a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University & the director of the Institute Francais d'Architecture. He specializes in the twentieth-century architecture & urbanism of Europe & the United States. John Goodman is a translator and art historian. He has rendered some thirty books from French into English, notably work by Denis Diderot, Hubert Damisch, and Georges Didi-Huberman. Goodman has published widely on the visual culture of eighteenth-century Europe and is currently preparing a synthetic study of neoclassicism for Thames and Hudson's World of Art series.

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