A Little House
Le Corbusier
Birkhäuser, March 2020 (New Edition)

Paperback | 4-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches | 100 pages | 72 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3035620665 | $34.99

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Villa le Lac, which was designated a World Heritage in 2016, was designed and built by Le Corbusier as Geneva lakeside home for his parents in 1925. Because of its spare arrangement of spaces, he referred to it as a ?dwelling machine.? Even today it remains the modern prototype of the ?small house? that fulfills all of the functions of a residence with a minimum of floor area and seamless transitions between spaces. For the first time, this book is appearing in three separate language editions, following the original edition in which Le Corbusier documented the history of the building: with photographs, sketches and a poetic text. Access to the original photographs allowed the quality of the illustrations in this edition to be improved significantly. REFERRAL LINKS:
    

dDAB COMMENTARY:
Of the nearly 50 books that Le Corbusier produced in his lifetime, two were devoted to individual buildings, both comprising the Les Carnets de la Recherche Patiente imprint of publisher Editions Girsberger. The first book, Une Petite Maison, was devoted to the small house he designed with Pierre Jeanneret for Le Corbusier's parents and built on the shores of Lake Geneva in 1925; the second was about the Chapel at Ronchamp, which Corbu was working on when the first book wa...