Catherine Dumont d'Ayot

Le Corbusier’s Pavilion for Zurich

Model and Prototype of an Ideal Exhibition Space

Le Corbusier’s Pavilion for Zurich uses numerous handwritten documents, drawings, and papers to trace the history of Le Corbusier’s last built work. This dwelling, which is also a museum, was initiated by Zürich gallery owner Heidi Weber. With its abstract forms and colors, it represents an intellectual legacy of the famous architect in which the further development of architecture as envisaged by Le Corbusier is clearly legible. From the first ideas and sketches from and beyond, the genesis of this exceptional building—the completion of which the architect did not live to see—is presented with lavish use of illustrations and documents. This book explains for the first time the significance of the pavilion, which differs strongly from the beton brut of Le Corbusier’s late work, in terms of its position as one of the architect’s central and forward-looking works.

Le Corbusier’s Pavilion for Zurich uses numerous handwritten documents, drawings, and papers to trace the history of Le Corbusier’s last built work. This dwelling, which is also a museum, was initiated by Zürich gallery owner Heidi Weber. With its abstract forms and colors, it represents an intellectual legacy of the famous architect in which the further development of architecture as envisaged by Le Corbusier is clearly legible. From the first ideas and sketches from and beyond, the genesis of this exceptional building—the completion of which the architect did not live to see—is presented with lavish use of illustrations and documents. This book explains for the first time the significance of the pavilion, which differs strongly from the beton brut of Le Corbusier’s late work, in terms of its position as one of the architect’s central and forward-looking works.

English edition – also available in French and German

Author(s): Catherine Dumont d’Ayot, in collaboration with Tim Benton

Edited by Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation (IDB), ETH Zürich

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16,5 x 24 cm, 6 ½ x 9 ½ in

224 pages, 201 illustrations

hardback

2013, 978-3-03778-305-4, English
CHF 35.00
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Catherine Dumont d'Ayot

Catherine Dumont D'Ayot (*1965) studied architecture at the University of Geneva and at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. She has been teaching and researching at the University of Geneva since 1995 and at the ETH Zürich since 2006.