Journey To The East
Available again after many years, the legendary travel diary kept by the young Le Corbusier on his journey through the Balkans in 1911.
This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe in 1911. 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 his first sight of the monuments he most admired: the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon. Le Corbusier himself suppressed publication of this book during his lifetime; after his death, the text was released as "an unprefaced last confession."
- Paperback | 288 pages
- 191 x 191 x 15mm | 612g
- 30 Nov 2007
- MIT Press Ltd
- Mit Press
- Cambridge, United States
- English
- 85 b&w illus.; 170 Illustrations, unspecified
- 0262622106
- 9780262622103
