Le Corbusier a life
From an acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, this is the first full-scale life of Le Corbusier: one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded as a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist mo...
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