CONTENTS

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION. Notes on Invention

PART I. THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF CHARLES EDOUARD JEANNERET 1887-1922
1 The Home Base
2 In Search of Personal Principles
3 A Classicism for the Jura
4 Paris, Purism and ‘L’Esprit Nouveau’

PART II. ARCHITECTURAL IDEALS AND SOCIAL REALITIES 1922-1944
5 Defining Types for the New Industrial City
6 Houses, Studios and Villas
7 Machine-Age Palaces and Public Institutions
8 Villa Savoye, Cité de Refuge, Pavilion Suisse
9 Regionalism and Reassessment in the 1930s
10 Politics, Urbanism and Travels 1929-1944

PART III. THE ANCIENT SENSE: LATE WORKS 1945-1965
11 The Modulor, Marseilles and the Mediterranean Myth
12 Sacral Forms, Ancient Associations
13 Le Corbusier in India: The Symbolism of Chandigarh
14 The Merchants of Ahmedabad
15 Retrospection and Invention: Final Projects

CONCLUSION Le Corbusier: Principles and Transformations
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES
INDEX