Nicholas Fox Weber
Le Corbusier
There are hundreds of books about Le Corbusier’s architecture, but very little knowledge about the man himself. This book is an attempt to reveal Le Corbusier’s personality, his motivations, give a sense of his mind, his human relationships. Le Corbusier is a book about what Le Corbusier was like as a human being.
Editor: Erind Pajo
Le Corbusier
Nicholas Fox Weber Le Corbusier: A Life Knopf 944 pages, 6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches ISBN 978 0375410437
Available here →January 13, 2009
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Nicholas Fox Weber
Nicholas Fox Weber was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Columbia College and Yale University. He is the director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the author of thirteen previous books, among them The Clarks of Cooperstown, Balthus, Patron Saints, and The Art of Babar. He and his wife, the novelist Katherine Weber, live in Bethany, Connecticut, and Paris. They have two daughters.
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