Towards Universality: Le Corbusier, Mies, and De Stijl

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Psychology Press, 2002 - 237 strán (strany)

There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. However, this book considers them in relation to each other, observing how a study of one can illuminate the works of the others. Going beyond a superficial look at the end-products of these architects, this book examines the philosophical foundations of their work, taking as its central theme the aim of universality, as opposed to the individual and the particular.

Each of these three aimed at universality, but for each this concept took on a different form. The universality of De Stijl and artists like Van Doesburg and Mondrian resembled that of the universe itself: it was boundless, going beyond the limits of the canvas and seeking to abolish the wall as the boundary between interior and exterior space. In contrast, each of Le Corbusier's creations was a self-contained universe within a clear frame, while Mies fluctuated between these two perspectives.

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The Open or the Closed De Stijl and Le Corbusier
xiii
12 An art of destruction
xiv
evolution from the individualnatural to the universalabstract
2
the goal of history and fourdimensionality
5
15 Giedions authorized history of the modern movement
9
architecture as the construction of reality
12
17 The Schroder house
14
18 The De Stijl house as a fragment of a continuous city
16
411 Poissy and Barcelona
107
412 The Barcelona Pavilion as a symbolic form
108
413 The end of the heroic period of modern architecture
111
414 Mies Le Corbusier and Van Doesburg after 1929
112
415 lt is necessary not to adapt but to create
115
Lauweriks Van Doesburg and Le Corbusier
118
52 ViolletleDuc Cuypers and Beriage
124
53 Dusseldorf and the Werkbund
129

19 De Stijl openness versus the increasingly private future
17
spatial interpenetration and the new spirit
18
111 Le Corbusiers ordered compartmentation of space and time
22
112 The tree and the semilattice
24
113 Purist containment versus De Stijl continuity and multivalence
27
114 The role of the corner junction in architecture
31
De Stijls Other Name
34
22 Chinese Greek and German philosophy
41
23 The way forward through architecture
45
24 The way forward through mathematics
50
25 The necessity of proportion
52
The Furniture of the Mind
57
32 Appearance reality and representation
62
33 Representation as substitution
65
34 The abstraction of function
68
abstract painting versus concrete architecture
70
36 Gerrit Rietveld furniture maker
75
both particular and general
80
The Pavilion and the Court
85
42 Three house projects
86
43 Tent and pavilion
87
44 Romanticism and the pavilion system
88
45 Le Corbusier classical architect
91
46 Van Doesburgs architectural programme
93
47 Standardization
94
48 The Schroder house Utrecht 1924
95
49 Mies van der Rohe and De Stijl
98
La RocheJeanneret and Pessac
104
54 Cosmic mathematics
132
55 Grids
137
56 The entire cosmos in a single image
127
Mies The Correspondence of Thing and 1ntellect
130
62 Mies Aquinas and the definition of truth
134
63 Art as a way to knowledge
136
64 The impact of expressionism and De Stijl
140
65 From Barcelona 1929 to Berlin 1962
147
66 The truth and its exposition
150
67 The house as machine à mediter
152
Figure and Ground
158
72 Rasmussen and the Rubin vase
161
73 Dom van der Laan and architectonic space
167
74 Towards a deeper perspective
170
The Unchanging and the Changeable
176
82 An alternative manifesto
182
83 Particular functions and universal construction
185
84 The utilitarian support system
188
Rossi and Mies
196
Hertzberger and the necessity of differentiation
200
Oud and Le Corbusier
203
88 Collage and contradiction
205
89 Both that which is unchangeable and that which is in change
208
Bibliography
213
Index
219
Credits
222
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Richard Padovan lectures at the University of Bath. He has worked as an architect in various European countries.

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