Le Corbusier: The Measures of Man

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) – visionary architect, urban planner and theorist of modernity, and also an accomplished painter and sculptor – made a profound impression on the 20th century in dramatically changing architectural design and the way people lived in it. This new book, coinciding with a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, shows the output of this major figure in modernity through the idea of human proportions, the human body being essential as a universal principle defining all aspects of architecture and spatial composition.