Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

Plate (page 151) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle)

1947–53, published 1955

Lithograph from an illustrated book with 121 lithographs, including covers (one with collage)

On view MoMA, Floor 4, 417 The David Geffen Galleries
Author Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
Medium Lithograph from an illustrated book with 121 lithographs, including covers (one with collage)
Dimensions composition: 16 9/16 × 12 7/16" (42 × 31.6 cm); page (each): 16 9/16 × 12 11/16" (42 × 32.3 cm)
Publisher Tériade, Paris
Printer Mourlot, Paris
Edition 250
Credit The Louis E. Stern Collection
Object number 886.1964.115
Department Drawings and Prints

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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

French, born Switzerland. 1887–1965 210 works online

In 1923, in his book Vers une architecture ( Towards a New Architecture ), architect and designer Le Corbusier declared houses to be “machines for living in.

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