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von Moos, Stanislaus; Rüegg, Arthur

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Note to the Reader

Stanislaus von Moos (Editor), Arthur Rüegg (Editor)

Description: Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and...

Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and Photography, 1907–1922

~Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (1887–1965) adopted his famous pseudonym “Le Corbusier” around 1920, using it in the premiere issue of L’Esprit nouveau. He and cofounder Amédée Ozenfant contributed multiple articles to each issue of the journal under a variety of pseudonyms—De Fayet, Saugnier, and Paul Boulard, among...

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Stanislaus von Moos (Editor), Arthur Rüegg (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22000

Note to the Reader

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (1887–1965) adopted his famous pseudonym “Le Corbusier” around 1920, using it in the premiere issue of L’Esprit nouveau. He and cofounder Amédée Ozenfant contributed multiple articles to each issue of the journal under a variety of pseudonyms—De Fayet, Saugnier, and Paul Boulard, among others—which can confuse modern scholarship. In some cases they coauthored articles under a single pseudonym, adding to this confusion. In endnote citations, we have simply used “[pseud.]” to indicate these names. The authors of the essays that follow have variously used Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, and Jeanneret/Le Corbusier, as deemed appropriate to the context of their essays.

Jeanneret’s six-month journey in 1911, with stops in the Balkans, Turkey, Greece, and Italy, is known as the Voyage d’Orient, and this is how we refer to this important event throughout the text. Jeanneret published his observances in installments in his hometown newspaper, Feuille d’Avis de La Chaux-de-Fonds, and eventually gathered these together for subsequent publication, which occurred posthumously as Le Voyage d’orient (1966); italics indicate this publication. Similarly, his sojourn in Germany has been called the Voyages d’Allemagne. Several of his sketchbooks, notebooks, and other archival material from these and other trips have been published in facsimile editions (see the Bibliography) or have formed the basis of exhibitions.

Most of the contributors to this catalogue cite Le Corbusier’s first major publication, Vers une architecture (1923). This book has appeared in several editions, including one in English, and we have left the authors’ citations as submitted rather than attempt to standardize them. In addition, some of the authors have retranslated quotations from this work for greater clarity. Archival material, primarily correspondence, has similarly been translated by some of the authors or by the translators credited on the copyright page. And in some cases, quotations from other publications by Jeanneret/Le Corbusier have been newly translated for this catalogue.

In the captions references in brackets at the end of each item relate to the exhibition checklist.

ABBREVIATIONS

CEJ	Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
LC	Le Corbusier
BN	Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
BV	Bibliothèque de la Ville, La Chaux-de-Fonds
FLC	Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris

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BOOKLe Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and Photography, 1907–1922

Stanislaus von Moos (Editor), Arthur Rüegg (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00301

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21999

In his numerous writings, Le Corbusier remained uncharacteristically silent about his early career. This intriguing book examines his nascent years as a designer and architect, focusing on the period from 1907 to 1922—the year he changed his name from Charles Edouard Jeanneret and established his identity as Le Corbusier. The contributors to the book offer in unprecedented detail an account of Le Corbusier’s formative years and the cultural, intellectual, and artistic concerns that absorbed him as a young artist in Switzerland and Paris.

From 1907 to 1922 Jeanneret learned the art and craft of architecture and design, and defined his own image as an artist. The book discusses the cultural climate of his Swiss hometown, La Chaux-de-Fonds; his early mentors, friends, and clients; his educational pursuits, including his self-designed Grand Tour; and his first successes as an architect and designer. More than 350 illustrations—including architectural drawings and models, watercolors, sketches, photographs, and furniture—show the range of young Le Corbusier’s work and illuminate the principal themes and issues of his formative years.

Author

Stanislaus von Moos (Editor), Arthur Rüegg (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Print publication date August 2002 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300093575

EISBN 9780300266252

Illustrations 466

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