Architecture with and without Le Corbusier - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9881512573 ISBN 13: 9789881512574

Publisher: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2013

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Architecture with and without Le Corbusier documents two architectural masterpieces: the Church at Firminy and The Miller House. The church is a late work by Le Corbusier that was left unfinished for 40 years. José Oubrerie, a protégé of the great master who had worked on the project from its inception, completed and built the canonical work, adapting it to current needs and standards while respecting the integrity of the original design. The Miller House, Oubrerie's own late masterpiece from the 90s, is a landmark in Lexington where the architect devotes his mature years to academic leadership at the University of Kentucky. It is firmly on its way to securing a permanent place in the modernist canon. The thorough documentation of the two buildings with an extensive collection of previously unpublished drawings, documents and photographs builds a precise and vivid testimony of Oubrerie's unique architectural trajectory with Le Corbusier's formidable legacy as a formative and creative influence. The two seminal works, presented side by side with commentary by George Renalli and Kenneth Frampton yield insight into the evolution and current resonance of modernist architecture in a story that spans two worlds and two distinguished careers.

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José Oubrerie is a professor at Austin Knowlton School of Architecture and registered architect in France. He has taught at Unite Pedagogique #8, Paris, as a visitor at The Cooper Union, New York Institute of Technology, Columbia University GSAPP, and a professor and dean of College of Architecture of the University of Kentucky. He has lectured and published extensively, and his work has been widely exhibited.George Ranalli founded the award-winning firm George Ranalli, Architect in 1977.  Educated at Pratt Institute (BArch '72) and Harvard GSD (MArch '74), he held a professorship at Yale University (1976-1999), and visiting professorships to numerous other leading schools. He is known  for modern architecture attuned to setting and history. His five monograph publications include In Situ: George Ranalli Works & Projects (2014). His architecture and industrial design have been exhibited, collected, and published internationally.
Kenneth Frampton trained at Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He was editor of Architectural Design, and has taught at Royal College of Art, the ETH Zurich, EPFL Lansanne, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Berlage Institute, and currently Ware Professor of Architecture at GSAPP, Columbia University. Frampton has authored Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1980), Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995), American Masterworks (1995), Le Corbusier (2001), Labour, Work & Architecture (2005), and Modern Architecture: A Critical History, 4th Ed. (2007).
Luis Burriel Bielza is an associate professor at School of Architecture and Technology (ESAyT) at University Camilo José Cela, Madrid. His scholarship, primarily focused on Le Corbusier, and photography, have been featured internationally. He is a grantee from Canadian Center for Architecture and J. Paul Getty Museum Research Institute. Along with two partners, he is a principal of the award-winning design firm SOMOS.Arquitectos.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9881512573
• ISBN 13: 9789881512574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352