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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Le Corbusier, 1887-1965. Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1991 (OCoLC)644320685 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Le Corbusier |
| ISBN: | 0262121492 9780262121491 |
| OCLC Number: | 21764341 |
| Notes: | Translation of: Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme. Spine title: Precisions. |
| Description: | xiii, 266 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | To free oneself entirely of academic thinking -- Techniques are the very basis of poetry -- Architecture in everything, city planning in everything -- A dwelling at human scale -- The undertaking of furniture -- The plan of the modern house -- A man = a dwelling, dwellings = a city : the plan of a contemporary city of three million inhabitants -- A house, a palace : the search for architectural unity -- The Voisin Plan for Paris : can Buenos Aires become one of the great cities of the world? -- The world city and some perhaps untimely considerations -- Appendix. The temperature of Paris ; The atmosphere of Moscow ; "An aside." |
| Other Titles: | Precisions. Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme. |
| Responsibility: | Le Corbusier ; translated by Edith Schreiber Aujame. |
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