CONTENTS
Preface to the First Edition 8
Preface to the Second Edition 12
Introduction: Notes on Invention 16
The Formative Years of Charles Edouard Jeanneret
1887-1922
1 The Home Base 26
2 In Search of Personal Principles 44
3 A Classicism for the Jura 62
4 Paris, Purism and L'Esprit Nouveau 88
II. Architectural Ideal and Social Realitie
1922-1944
5.efining Types for the New Industrial City 1
6. Houses, Studios and Villas 124
7. Machine-Age Palaces and Public Institutions 148
8. The Structure of Intentions: Villa Savoye 166
9.Collective Demonstrations: Cite
de Refuge and Pavilion Suisse 188
10. Mechanization, Nature and 'Regionalism' 208
11.Politics, Urbanism and Travels 232
Ill. The Ancient Sense : Late Works 1945-1965
12. The Modulor, Marseilles and the Mediterranean Myth 252
Sacral Forms, Ancient Associations 276
Le Corbusier in India : The Symbolism of Chandigarh 304
The Merchants of Ahmedabad 332
16 Retrospection and Invention: Final Projects 354
IV. Principles and Transformations
17 The Realm of Architectural Ideas 379
18 The Genesis of Forms 396
19 The Unique and the Typical 424
20 On Transforming Le Corbusier 448
21 Conclusion:
Modernism, Nature, Tradition 464
Bibliography and notes 476
Index 504