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LE CORBUSIER
Opus 1
Eveline Perroud
“Building should strengthen, architecture should stir the emotions,” said Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as the famed architect Le Corbusier. Swiss photographer Eveline Perroud’s Opus 1 Le Corbusier vividly documents the 2000 restoration of Le Corbusier’s first project, La Maison Blanche, a home he built for his parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1912, when he was just 25 years old. With text by the architect Martin Veith and a fascinating conversation with Lucien Hervé, who photographed the home for Le Corbusier when it was first built, this richly illustrated, large-format book brings the legendary architect’s Modernist work to life.
11 1/2 x 11 inches / 132 pp / 56 color
ISBN: 978-3-7212-0647-0
Retail Price: $69.95
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DOUALA IN TRANSLATION
A View of the City and its Creative and its Creative Transformative Potentials
Lucia Babina and Marilyn Douala Bell
With nearly three million inhabitants, Cameroon’s most populous city, Douala, is a multicultural hub strongly tied to its European colonial past. The arts and culture organization Doual’art has attracted international workers to Douala since 1991, and this small-format book collects their essays and stories, chronicling perspectives on Douala – both real and fictionalized. With 20 entries and hundreds of full-color photos, the collaboration expresses the role of art and public space in a modern West African city, and its writers delve beyond prejudice toward the developing world to glean an understanding of the transformative influence of art and creativity in a rapidly developing African metropolis. Awarded Best Dutch Book Design 2007.
256 pp / 138 color
ISBN: 978-90-5973-071-7
Retail Price: $55.00