Le Corbusier - Les plans Le Corbusier de Paris 1956 1922 - 1956

Design - Art
Le Corbusier's plans for Paris 1956 1922
Les Éditions de minuit 1956
French

This important book is not only an outstanding example of graphic design and bookmaking, but it also gives important insight into how Le Corbusier viewed his earlier designs for Paris.
Elements of The Complete Works and his radiant seminal The City are reproduced in this book alongside his comments on his earlier conceptions in his own handwritten text.
The Paris Plans were published in October 1956, nearly two years after Le Corbusier began working on them. By this time, Le Corbusier and Éditions de Minuit had already been in regular contact for several years, and the evolution of their various collaborations is undoubtedly influenced by the final form of their first completed publishing project.
It would appear that *Les Plans de Paris* responds to some of Jérôme Lindon's suggestions regarding a re-edition of *La Ville radieuse*. Lindon proposed "re-naming" the 1935 book by adding, among other things, three chapters: "New American Architecture," "Marseille," and "India." These proposed chapters are indeed found in the 1956 edition, as are many chapters from *La Ville radieuse*. We can consider the principle of this book, constructed from pre-existing elements, as a literal application of the recommended "re-naming."
Writing in her definitive catalogue raisonné of Le Corbusier's books, Catherine de Smet notes that "the handwritten comments are... accompanied by green shapes throughout the book, forming what Le Corbusier compared to a track, a kind of 'greenway' which runs throughout the volume.

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