朗香教堂以其船头似的外墙和倒转的蟹壳形状的屋顶，引起了建筑界的轰动和负责它的教区的愤怒。

From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings—a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture. In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism—vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru . . . Brassaï . . . Malraux (he championed Le Corbusier’s work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris) . . . Einstein . . . Matisse . . . the Steins . . . Picasso . . . Walter Gropius, and others. We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated goverments only for the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitler and Vichy rule would bring about “a marvelous transformation of society,” then renounced the doomed regime and went to work for Charles de Gaulle and his provisional government. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s fraught relationships with women (he remained celibate until the age of twenty-four and then often went to prostitutes); about his twenty-seven-year-long marriage to a woman who had no interest in architecture and forbade it being discussed at the dinner table; about his numerous love affairs during his marriage, including his shipboard romance with the twenty-three-year-old Josephine Baker, already a legend in Paris, whom he saw as a “pure and guileless soul.” She saw him as “irresistibly funny.” “What a shame you’re an architect!” she wrote. “You’d have made such a good partner!” A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived.

《萨伏伊别墅》讲述了：勒·柯布西耶导读系列丛书共7册，中英文对照，由法国勒·柯布西耶基金会提供资料和授权，从瑞士引进。每一分册着重介绍柯布西耶的一个向公众开放的著名建筑作品的场地环境、功能分区、方案进程、建造过程和空间设计，引导读者神游其中，做一次愉悦的建筑漫步。《萨伏伊别墅》主要讲述萨伏伊别墅的历史背景和设计始末。萨伏伊别墅（1928～1931年）是白色“纯粹主义别墅”系列终结的一个标志。萨伏伊别墅是城市主题与建筑语汇的综合体，它所用的建筑语汇是勒·柯布西耶在整个19世纪20年代的一系列设计方案的最终实验阶段所发展而成的建筑语汇。“绝对纯粹”——就像建筑师惯常说的那样，这一具有形式激进主义与革新风格的艺术作品，进入了20世纪私人住宅领域，最有代表性的建筑作品的行列。同样，萨伏伊别墅代表了一种设计概念拥有双重地位的新的住宅风格：既是对传统价值的坚持——一个俯瞰周围环境的殿堂——又是现代住宅在当代的一个范例。这座别墅既可以通过它的建筑外皮的统一形式，被解读为一个帕拉第奥式的乡村住所的典型，又可以解读成法国的一类建筑的象征，即将其内部的不同部分按一定流程组装起来的建筑类型。 《萨伏伊别墅》适用于建筑师、城市规划师及广大建筑院校师生。

西扎讲的是：重访萨沃依； 埃森曼的话题是：现代主义的一面：多米诺住宅与自我援引的符号。 库哈斯讲的是：光明之城。。。。。