Product Description
by Franz Graf (Author), Giula Marino (Author)
The first book on Le Corbusiers's iconic apartment-studio.
Le Corbusier's apartment-studio is an iconic object of the twentieth century, combining the indisputable material values of the building with the intangible "sense of place" of an architect's home. Le Corbusier, who lived there from 1934 until his death in 1965, treated it as a permanent construction site--a unique place of spatial, plastic, and constructional experimentation. The phases of change at the apartment-studio are layered over each other, and thus the apartment's "many lives" create major philosophical problems for conservation. The "stratigraphy" itself, hard to unscramble yet full of meaning, is key to the apartment's importance. This first book on the apartment-studio, richly illustrated with largely unpublished visual material, presents research undertaken by the Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture (TSAM) for the Fondation Le Corbusier during preparatory investigations for the program of restoration. Lavish and thorough, Many Lives of Apartment-Studio Le Corbusier is an exploration of an iconic space.Author Biography
Franz Graf is a freelance architect in Geneva. He is also associate professor at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he is the head of the Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture (TSAM) and professor of technology at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. Graf is also the President of Docomomo Switzerland and a member of the expert commission for the restoration of architectural works at the Fondation Le Corbusier. Giula Marino is professor at the UCLouvain, LOCI-LAB Bruxelles, and researcher at the Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture at the EPFL (TSAM), which she cofounded with Franz Graf. A member of Icomos, Marino has also been vice president of Docomomo Switzerland.
