First American—and apparently first English-language—edition of Le Corbusier’s foundational discourse on functionalist urban planning, published in 1973 by Grossman Publishers. Square 8vo (8.5” x 8.5”), orange cloth with spine lettered in white, pictorial dust jacket, 111 pages. Translated from the French by Anthony Eardley; new foreword by Josep Luis Sert. Developed from the fourth CIAM congress of 1933 and first published in French, anonymously, in occupied Paris in 1943, the manifesto organized the modern city around four functions—dwelling, work, recreation, and circulation—and became both a charter for postwar planning and, later, a principal object of criticism for its separation of uses, clearance strategies, superblocks, and diminished traditional street life. Sert’s new foreword lends the volume particular historical authority: a participant in the CIAM movement, he later served as its president. Handsomely designed in orange cloth, with Le Corbusier’s symbolic drawing reproduced against the vivid red-orange jacket. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Light bumping and rubbing to dust jacket, with three small closed tears to edges.
First American—and apparently first English-language—edition of Le Corbusier’s foundational discourse on functionalist urban planning, published in 1973 by Grossman Publishers. Square 8vo (8.5” x 8.5”), orange cloth with spine lettered in white, pictorial dust jacket, 111 pages. Translated from the French by Anthony Eardley; new foreword by Josep Luis Sert. Developed from the fourth CIAM congress of 1933 and first published in French, anonymously, in occupied Paris in 1943, the manifesto organized the modern city around four functions—dwelling, work, recreation, and circulation—and became both a charter for postwar planning and, later, a principal object of criticism for its separation of uses, clearance strategies, superblocks, and diminished traditional street life. Sert’s new foreword lends the volume particular historical authority: a participant in the CIAM movement, he later served as its president. Handsomely designed in orange cloth, with Le Corbusier’s symbolic drawing reproduced against the vivid red-orange jacket. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Light bumping and rubbing to dust jacket, with three small closed tears to edges.
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