Le Corbusier: The City of Refuge, Paris 1929/33

by Brian Brace Taylor

The City of Refuge complex--commissioned by the Salvation Army as part of its program to transform social outcasts into spiritually renewed workers--represents a significant confluence of design principles, technological experiments, and attitudes on reform. It also provides rare insights into the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects, Le Corbusier.

Brian Brace Taylor draws on extensive archival research to reconstruct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226791343
• ISBN13: 9780226791340
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"