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Author: Le Corbusier
Title: Vers une architecture. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée. 13e édition.
Publication: Paris, G. Crès & Cie nd (c. 1925).
Price: £180
Reference: 09421
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8vo. xi + (1) + 243 + (3)pp, many text ills. Publisher’s printed wrappers, neatly repaired at spine. Formerly in the stock of the Weinreb firm, which acquired the copy in January 1969.
Undoubtedly Le Corbusier’s most influential book, setting out his ideas on proportion, house plans, the lessons of the past and the importance of the new industrial style, which shocked the architectural establishment by putting the architecture of grain silos on a par with the Parthenon.