Beginning in the "heroic" period of the 1920s, Le Corbusier presented his work to the world in his lectures: in Paris and Rome, Geneva and Zurich, Barcelona and Brussels, Prague and Moscow, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, as well as at Columbia University in New York. In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the arguments and strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing highlights and fuses them into an architectural conception that every advanced architectural position and practice must still come to terms with today. After presenting the lectures in detail in a series of thematic chapters, the final third of the book reproduces five pivotal lectures from the 1920s and 1950s.

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Tim Benton is recognised as a leading expert on Le Corbusier and is one ofthe most important art historians worldwide. He now teaches at the Open University, Great Britain's largest university. Text of the English edition is by the author himself: Tim Benton wrote the book in French and re-writes his text in English, his native language.

Introduction The Corbusian Logic Conferences on Architecture: Origins and Evolution Conferences on Urbanism: Origins and Evolution The Buenos Aires Conferences 5 Conferences: Strasbourg, 1923 Lausanne, 1924 Paris, 1924 Brussels, 1926 Brussels, 1958 Indeces Bibliography