Research Catalog

Title

Guido Guidi : Le Corbusier - 5 architectures / edited by Andrea Simi ; texts, Rosa Tamborrino, Antonello Frongia, Andrea Simi ; translations, Niccolò Porcellato.

Author

Guidi, Guido, 1941-

Publication

• Heidelberg ; Berlin : Kehrer, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Simi, Andrea
• Tamborrino, Rosa
• Frongia, Antonello
• Unosunove arte contemporanea (Gallery), host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his
• Kehrer Galerie (Berlin, Germany), host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Description

119 pages : chiefly color photographs; 31 x 30 cm

Summary

In 2003, famous Italian photographer Guido Guidi created a series documenting a selection of buildings by Le Corbusier in France. The project is collected in this publication, showing a wide range of photographs never published before. Guido Guidi (b. 1941 in Cesena, Italy) has been pioneering Italian landscape and architectural photography for more than half a century. This series is a prime example of appreciation of "constructed landscapes". In what became a very personal project for the artist, he chose some of Le Corbusier's less well known edifices: the Maison la Roche (completed in 1925), the Maison Planeix (1928), the Villa Savoye (1931), the French Salvation Army's Cité de Refuge (1933), and the factory building Usine Duval (1951). The resulting photographs reveal the intensive dialogue between Guidi and Le Corbusier, preserving the details of the spaces, the materials, the colors, and the pure geometry of the shapes. Instead of lingering on the surface of the symbolic, Guidi reveals the traces of Le Corbusier's conceptions, helping us to decrypt the great architect's heritage.

Alternative Title

• Le Corbusier - 5 architectures
• Guido Guidi : Le Corbusier - 5 architetture
• Le Corbusier - 5 architetture

Subjects

• Architectural photography > Exhibitions
• Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 > Exhibitions
• Guidi, Guido, 1941- > Exhibitions
• Architecture > France > History > 20th century > Pictorial works

Note

• On the occasion of an exhibition held at 1/9unosunove Gallery, Rome, May 6 - June 24, 2017; Kehrer Galerie, Berlin, April 27 - July 7, 2018.
• Includes interview of Guido Guidi by Antonello Frongia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Parallel texts in English and Italian.

ISBN

• 9783868288339
• 3868288333

LCCN

9783868288339

OCLC

• on1053805039
• 1053805039
• SCSB-9239370

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries