Prospective and Retrospective

Le Corbusier’s Twofold Voyage d’Orient

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ID19415715
AuthorsJacobé Huet (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume38
Issue1
Pages291-330
Publication date2021-12-06
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMuqarnas Online (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0732-2992 • E-ISSN: 2211-8993
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22118993-00381p10
OpenAlexW4200087759
LanguageEN
Citations received47

In 1911, a twenty-three-year-old Le Corbusier embarked on a six-month journey from Dresden to Istanbul, and back to his native Switzerland through Greece and Italy. Upon his return, the young architect unsuccessfully attempted to publish his travel notes as a book in 1912 and again in 1914. Only in 1965, forty days before his death, did Le Corbusier conduct the final revision of his 1914 typescript for publication. The next year, Le Voyage d’Orient was published posthumously. Previous scholarship on this book has overlooked the importance of Le Corbusier’s 1965 edits, consequently approaching the work as an authentic testament of the author’s youthful spirit. Based on a new and contextualized reading of the 1914 typescript hand-annotated by Le Corbusier in 1965, this article demonstrates how the late edits constitute a re-writing of a segment of Le Corbusier’s own history, especially in relation to his ideas of modernity, tradition, inspiration, and attachment to Mediterranean architecture

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