Modular Harmonious Measure Human Scale by Corbusier (3 results)
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Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1961
- Softcover
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United KingdomDouglas Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good (+). 1st British Edition. Illustrated cover with all outer corners curled/creased, a few small spots to back and ingrained grey dust marking by spine. 243 pp., 100 ils, mostly in text but many full page; previous owner's name and impressed round ownership stamp top fr. end-paper, outer corner curling…extends from both end into text, only fading out around pp.88-177, otherwise internally clean and unmarked. This is a translation of 1951 2nd French edition, 18.5 cm x 18.5 cm (i.e. square).
Published by Basel. Birkhauser., 2000
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, AustraliaThe Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB)
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Add to basketSm.8vo. Dec.wrapps. 243,336pp. b/w ills. Fine. Le Corbusier writes:"the problem of housing is one of the principal themes of contemporary society. In all continents it exercises minds inspired by the same motives." The poet Blaise Cendrars replied "I don't give a hang for your Modular, It must be wrong because nowhere in the wor…ld can I find a flat." The same lament many Australians now have.
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, 1958
- Hardcover
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller3-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Two cloth bound volumes. Fine. 243, 336 pages. 19 x 19 cm. Modular with a host of drawings and Index, 198 black and white illustrations in Modular 2. Index. Criticisms, both favorable and adverse, are reported and answered. Further examples of the practical application of the Modular are described and illus…trated. FREITAG 5297. The Modular in beige cloth lettered in black and Modular 2 in medium blue cloth lettered in black. All interior contents clean, crisp and bright. Le Corbusier (illustrator).
