PREFACE
INTRODUCTION. Notes on Invention

PART I. THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF CHARLES EDOUARD JEANNERET 1887-1922
1. The Home Base
2. In Search of Personal Principles
3. A Classicism for the Jura
4. Paris, Purism and ‘L’Esprit Nouveau’

PART II. ARCHITECTURAL IDEALS AND SOCIAL REALITIES 1922-1944
5. Defining Types for the New Industrial City
6. Houses, Studios and Villas
7. Machine-Age Palaces and Public Institutions
8. Villa Savoye, Cité de Refuge, Pavilion Suisse
9. Regionalism and Reassessment in the 1930s
10. Politics, Urbanism and Travels 1929-1944

PART III. THE ANCIENT SENSE: LATE WORKS 1945-1965
11. The Modulor, Marseilles and the Mediterranean Myth
12. Sacral Forms, Ancient Associations
13. Le Corbusier in India: The Symbolism of Chandigarh
14. The Merchants of Ahmedabad
15. Retrospection and Invention: Final Projects

CONCLUSION Le Corbusier: Principles and Transformations
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES
INDEX