Le Corbusier wrote his first book-length treatise, La Construction des villes, in the early years of the C20th. This remarkable work, dealing with questions of aesthetic urbanism, shows Le Corbusier's intellectual influences in the field of urbanism, and it is an important document of contemporary urbanistic discourse around this period. In it, the architect emphasized the concept of space in the city as a prerequisite for aesthetic urbanism - which is highly remarkable since he later completely abandoned this notion. Discontent that the script was not sufficiently avant-garde, Le Corbusier...
Le Corbusier wrote his first book-length treatise, La Construction des villes, in the early years of the C20th. This remarkable work, dealing with que...
