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The catalogue of the exhibition Le Corbusier, Madrid, 1928. Una casa-un palacio  evokes Le Corbusier's first visit to Spain in 1928 during which he delivered  two lectures at the Residencia de Estudiantes. In these talks he tackled two questions -the architecture of residential houses and that of public institutions intented to serve as palaces for the community- which are still emblematic topics not only for the history of the Residencia itself, but also in terms of the birth of modern architecture in Spain.

This book gives a closer look at Le Corbusier's persona, as much admired as criticized by his contemporaries, and at his way of imagining a house -of inhabiting, in short, his idea of how the life of the modern man should be in his natural habitat: the metropolis-. It highlights Le Corbusier's many facets as a man -who is presented to us in this book not only as an architect, but also as a writer, painter, theorist and traveler-, which were not always well known by the general public. In the pages of this catalogue we discover little by little (thanks to photographs, sketches, letters, historical press and publications) the keys to understanding his thought process, in which concepts such as funcionality and utility prevailed, but were not at odds with the search for beauty.

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[PALABRAS DE PRESENTACIÓN EN LA RESIDENCIA DE ESTUDIANTES, 9 DE MAYO DE 1928]
LE CORBUSIER

UNA CASA-UN PALACIO. LE CORBUSIER, MADRID, 1928
SALVADOR GUERRERO

LA FUNCIÓN BELLEZA: DE LA «MÁQUINA DE HABITAR» A LA CASA COMO PALACIO
JUAN CALDUCH

LE CORBUSIER EN EL ESCORIAL: HACIA EL PALACIO
JOSEP M. ROVIRA

ARQUITECTURA, MOBILIARIO Y OBRAS DE ARTE

• Ciudad Contemporánea para Tres Millones de Habitantes, 1922
• Plan Voisin, París, 1925
• Casa Cook, Boulogne-sur-Seine, Francia, 1926
• Villa Stein-de Monzie, Garches / Vaucresson, 1926-1928
• Palacio de la Sociedad de Naciones, Ginebra, 1927
• Dos casas en la colonia Weissenhof, Stuttgart, 1927
• Silla pivotante, 1928
• Butaca con respaldo basculante, 1928
• Chaise longue, 1927-1928
• La dame au chat et à la théière, 1928
• Nature morte au siphon, 1928
• Nature morte au phare, 1928

LE CORBUSIER, 1928: LA PLÁSTICA DE UN ARQUITECTO
JUAN CALATRAVA

ESPAGNE
JUAN JOSÉ LAHUERTA

LA PROPAGANDA DE LA ARQUITECTURA MODERNA EN LA RESIDENCIA DE ESTUDIANTES
ANTONIO PIZZA

RELACIÓN DE OBRAS Y DOCUMENTOS EXPUESTOS

ÍNDICE ONOMÁSTICO Y DE OBRAS

Edited by: Salvador Guerrero
ISBN: 978-84-937474-0-4
Price: 30 €
Dutch binding (with cloth spine)
304 pp. 21 x 24 cm