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Le Corbusier and the Architectural Promenade
Author(s): Flora Samuel (Author)
- Publisher: Birkhäuser
- Publication Date: 23 Sept. 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 3034606079
- ISBN-13: 9783034606073
Book Description
Architecture is experienced as one roams about in it and walks through it So true is this that architectural works can be divided into dead and living ones depending on whether the law of roaming through has not been observed or whether on the contrary it has been brilliantly obeyed.(Le Corbusier, 1942)The promenade architecturale the observers pathway through the built space is a central element of Le Corbusiers architectural and city planning designs. It is the sequence of images that unfolds before the eyes of the observer as he or she gradually advances through the structure. It is the creation of a hierarchy among the architectural events, a set of instructions for reading the work the internal circulatory system of architecture. With the help of the promenade architecturale, Le Corbusier created virtuosic imbrications of indoor and outdoor space, fluid spaces that reveal themselves as the visitor progresses. Architecture constitutes the space of processes of movement.
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About the Author
Flora Samuel: Flora Samuel ist promovierte Architektin und Head of School der School of Architecture der University of Sheffield. In ihren Forschungen hat sie sich umfassend mit dem Schaffen Le Corbusiers befasst. Flora Samuel ist Autorin zahlreicher Publikationen, u.a. Le Corbusier in Detail, Architectural Press, Oxord 2007.
