A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier – one of the twentieth century's most influential architects. A decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph Le Corbusier Le Grand is finally available in a paperback edition.

Documenting the life and work of one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design, the book presents an array of sketches, photographs, and correspondences, charting the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, an artist who continues to fascinate those inside and outside the architectural world.

A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier (1887-1965), one of Modernism’s most influential architects, urban planners, and theorists
Approximately 2000 images and documents, many unpublished before Phaidon's first edition, feature his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture as well as sketches, photographs, and personal correspondence. Rarely seen photographs and correspondence shed new light on Le Corbusier's relationships with Josephine Baker, Eileen Gray, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Prouvé, and many others

A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier – one of the twentieth century's most influential architects. A decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph Le Corbusier Le Grand is finally available in a paperback edition.

Documenting the life and work of one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design, the book presents an array of sketches, photographs, and correspondences, charting the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, an artist who continues to fascinate those inside and outside the architectural world.

A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier (1887-1965), one of Modernism’s most influential architects, urban planners, and theorists
Approximately 2000 images and documents, many unpublished before Phaidon's first edition, feature his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture as well as sketches, photographs, and personal correspondence. Rarely seen photographs and correspondence shed new light on Le Corbusier's relationships with Josephine Baker, Eileen Gray, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Prouvé, and many others