Journey to the East.
by Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret ] & Zaknik, Ivan (ed)
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0262620685
- ISBN 13
- 9780262620680
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About This Item
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1991 Book. Illus. by Trans : Ivan Zaknic and Nicole Pertuiset. Very Good +. Trade Paperback. Reprint.. "This is the legendary travel diary that the 24-year-old Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his first journey [1911] through central and eastern Europe. In a flood of highly personal impressions and visual notations, it records his first contact with the vernacular architecture that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life and with the monuments he most admired, the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon. " [Ivan Zaknic, the editor and translator, is Associate Professor of Architecture at Lehigh University.] 270p. illus ( B & W) Pages clean and unmarkeDZs, corners bumped.
Synopsis
"Originally published by Forces Vives (Paris) in 1966 under the title Le Voyage d'Orient." Includes bibliographical references.
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041402
- Title
- Journey to the East.
- Author
- Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret ] & Zaknik, Ivan (ed)
- Illustrator
- Trans : Ivan Zaknic and Nicole Pertuiset
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Edition
- Reprint.
- ISBN 10
- 0262620685
- ISBN 13
- 9780262620680
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge MA
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE HUNGARY TURKEY ISTANBUL GREECE MOUNT ATHOS ACROPOLIS BYZANTINE ART
- Bookseller catalogs
- Acropolis/Parthenon; Constantinople / Istanbul; Athos;
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