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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Le Corbusier – Die Poesie Algiers
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year | 2016 |
| Cover | Softcover with dust jacket |
| Language | English, German |
| ISBN | 978-3-7757-4096-8 |
| Pages | 128 |
| Weight | 160 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Cleo Cantone |
| Article ID | art-49633 |
The French original from 1950, for the first time in German and English.
Poésie sur Alger, written in 1942 and published for the first time in 1950: a self-mocking examination of thirteen abortively invested, work-intensive years during which Le Corbusier devoted himself to the drawing up of extensive urban plans for Algiers.
Numerous additional plans followed on his first trip to Algeria in 1931. The architect dreamed of installing Algiers as the southernmost point of the cultural connection between the littoral states of the Mediterranean, between Paris, Barcelona, and Rome—as an “Islamic pole,” as he called it. The decision to publish his very personal and self-illustrated thoughts on a “plan directeur” for Algiers marks an important point in Le Corbusier’s development.
The publication continues to provide multilayered insight into the inner life and world of thought of the pioneer of architectural modernism.
