Mateo Kries

Le Corbusier: A Study of the Decorative Art Movement in Germany Mateo Kries

In its first-ever English translation, this 1912 essay was the first
publication for a young Swiss-born architect named Charles-Edouard
Jeanneret-Gris - better known today by the pseudonym he adopted in
1920, Le Corbusier. Always a prolific writer, and always interested in the
decorative arts, the young Le Corbusier lucidly analyzed the German
applied arts movement and its main figures, including Peter Behrens,
for whom he had worked in 1910-1911. This historic, extensively
illustrated edition puts Le Corbusier's text into the context of politics
and architecture on the eve of World War I, and reveals fascinating
connections between European history and the biography of this
towering architect.