Journey to the EastThis is the legendary travel diary that the 24-year-old Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his first journey through central and eastern Europe. In a flood of highly personal impressions and visual notations, it records his first contact with the vernacular architecture that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life and with the monuments he most admired, the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon. "'Very often, I left the Acropolis burdened by a heavy premonition, not daring to imagine that one day I would have to create.' Such words, are moving from any aspiring architect; from Le Corbusier they are an inspiration."-- "Progessive Architecture An this centenary year [1987] of his birth, many books are being published about Le Corbusier but none offers more insight into his character than this book from his own hand ... Every designer speculates at one time or another just what attributes other than talent are needed for success. In the case of the young Le Corbusier this travel journal reveals... extraordinary ego, energy, curiosity, and passion."-- "Interior Design Ivan Zaknic, the editor and translator, is Associate Professor of Architecture at Lehigh University. |
Contents
Mosque of Suleyman | 101 |
Nuruosmaniye Mosque | 115 |
The café of Mahmud Pasha | 134 |
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Acropolis Adrianople appear Aqueduct of Valens architecture Auguste Bazaar beautiful beneath blue boat bridge Bucharest Byzantine café carpous cemeteries Chaux-de-Fonds church climb color columns Constantinople Corbusier courtesy FLC courtyard cross crowd cypresses dark domes donkeys East El Greco exquisite eyes facing feel four French Galata gold Golden Horn gray green Hagia Sophia hill horizontal houses huge iconostasis immense Istanbul Jeanneret journey Karakallou L'Eplattenier La Chaux-de-Fonds Le Corbusier light look marble meters minarets monastery monks Monsieur Mosque Mosque of Suleyman Mount Athos mountain mules night original manuscript painted painter palace Paris Parthenon paved Pera Persian pilgrims pink Propylaea rocks Rodosto Rossikon Salon d'Automne sanctuary Scutari seen Serbia skete smile soul Stamboul stone strange streets Sultan temple thousand tombs trees Turkish Turks Turnovo Vienna walls wine women wooden yellow young