LE CORBUSIER HAS BEEN ONE OF THE DOMINANT FORCES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE, AND MANY OF THE FORMS HE CREATED HAVE BECOME ARCHETYPES OF MODERNISM. BUT HE WAS ALSO A SOCIAL VISIONARY AND A WRITER OF POLEMICS, WHOSE IDEAS HAVE GENERATED INTENSE AND PARTISAN CONTROVERSY. NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK, LE CORBUSIER: IDEAS AND FORMS PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE AND UNBIASED SURVEY THAT PUTS LE CORBUSIER IN A MORE BALANCED PERSPECTIVE. MAKING FULL USE OF THE LE CORBUSIER ARCHIVE, THE AUTHOR DOCUMENTS INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS IN DETAIL, WHILST LINKING THE IMAGINATIVE ACTIVITIES OF THE ARTIST TO HIS PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE, TO HIS URBAN VISIONS, TO HIS ART AND TO THE CULTURAL PREDICAMENTS OF HIS TIMES. CLOSE STUDY OF ALL LE CORBUSIER'S MAJOR BUILDINGS, FROM FIRST SKETCHES TO FINAL ACHIEVEMENT, REVEALS THE ARTISTS STRUGGLE TO RECONCILE THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICAL AND TO GIVE INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGIES A SUITABLE SYMBOLIC FORM.