Le Corbusier & The Architeture of Reinvention

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret set about the taks of reinventing everything he had touched, from himself to architecture.

Famously, he began with his own name. His resonant pseudonym, Le Corbusier, meant "crow-like", and he spent most of his career observing - as if from the air, like a crow - the wide horizon of worldwide developments in architecture, painting, writing, urbanism and politics.

From this bird-eye view he picked out the topics that interested him the most, before touching down to develop his work in more detail, through an interplay of the different disciplines.

Based on the proceedings of a conference at the AA, this book brings together scholars to explore Le Corbusier's tactics of self-reinvention, his relationship to the artistic avant-garde and his work as a multi-media practitioner.

The collection also features an English language ediiton of Le Corbusier's long-out-of-print "Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit", complete with the lithographs that illustrate it.