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Amédée Ozenfant, 1920–21, Nature morte (Still Life), oil on canvas, 81.28 cm x 100.65 cm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 – 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter and writer.
Cover of the original work. The Poem of the Right Angle (Le poème de l'angle droit) is a series of 19 paintings and corresponding writings composed by the influential Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier between 1947 and 1953 and first published in book format as a limited edition of 250 copies in 1955.
Curtis, William J. R., and Sekler, Eduard F. [1978], Le Corbusier at Work: The Genesis of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1978, ISBN 0-674-52059-9 Curtis, William J. R. [1982], Modern Architecture Since 1900 Phaidon Press, Oxford 1982; Prentice-Hall, Englewood NJ 1982; second edition 1987, third ...
In 1933, Kaufmann published the book Von Ledoux bis Le Corbusier, which argued for a formal aesthetic continuity between neoclassicism and modernism. It was regarded by established Austrian scholars such as Hans Sedlmayr as symptomatic of all that was bad about Modernism . [ 1 ]
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In his study of Corbusier, Kenneth Frampton writes that "one cannot emphasize too strongly the seminal role played in Jeanneret's early life" by L'Éplattenier. [4] He worked almost exclusively in the town of La Chaux de Fonds , where from 1897 he taught at the school of decorative arts.
The articles written by Le Corbusier for L'Esprit Nouveau comprise a number of those appearing in his seminal 1923 book Toward an Architecture. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Publication issues
This new mode of living derived from a new spirit defining the industrial age, demanding a rebirth of architecture based on function and a new aesthetic based on pure form. The authorship of the book was complex. Le Corbusier co-owned L'Esprit Nouveau with fellow purist painter Amédée Ozenfant. They co-signed many of the original essays as ...