(Architecture) - 10 volumes - Lot 11

(Architecture) - 10 volumes - LE CORBUSIER. Chapelle N.-D. du Haut in Ronchamp. Introduction and text by Jean Petit. No place or date. Square In-4, [124 pp], paperback, with illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with numerous photographs. - LE CORBUSIER. The Modulor (Essay on a Harmonic Measurement on a Human Scale Universally Applicable to Architecture and Mechanics). Modulor 2 (The Word Is with the Users), a sequel to "The Modulor." 2 square in-12 volumes, 240 and 344 pp., paperback, illustrated cover. Reprint of the first editions published in 1950 and 1955. Numerous illustrations. - A Convent by Le Corbusier. Volume produced by Jean Petit. Cahiers Forces Vives, 1961. Square in-8, publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. 143 pp., numerous illustrations. - LEMOINE (Bertrand). Monsieur Eiffel’s Tower. - Stories from Nowhere. Urban Utopias. 1789–2000. Paris, 2001. This exhibition catalog presents utopian projects—some sensible, others outlandish—that are often realized in reality. - BELS (Marie). In the Footsteps of Ledoux. Marseille, 2004. Quarto, 176 pp., paperback. Reproductions of the plates containing Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s designs for the construction of the courthouse and prison in Aix-en-Provence. Illustrations in black and white and color. - KANTOR-KAZOVSKY (Lola). Piranesi as Interpreter of Roman Architecture and the Origins of His Intellectual World. Florence, 2006. In-8, 310 pp, [1 f], 27 plates, printed on coated paper, containing 65 illustrations, paperback. - Aimé Malécot. Architect. Saint-Étienne. Strasbourg, Société française d’édition d’art, (1937). In-4, [21 ff], paperback, printed cover. Aimé Malécot (1896–1960) was a “social” architect. He played a pivotal role in the “public housing movement.” Numerous photographs of completed projects (primarily in the Loire region) and designs. Rare. - PICON (Antoine). Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment. Marseille, 2004. In-4, 320 pp, paperback. Illustrations. - Soufflot and His Time. 1780–1980. Paris, Monuments historiques, 1980. Square 8mo, 176 pp., paperback, illustrated cover. Exhibition catalog featuring 330 items, many of which are reproduced and annotated. - News from Nowhere. Urban Utopias. Valence Museum, 2001. 4to, paperback.