Les Voyages D'allemagne, Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier Les Voyages D'allemagne: Carnets Limited, Numbered Edition: 5 Volume Set Monacelli Press 1995

In spring 1911, Le Corbusier's transformative journey through Germany—Munich, Berlin, Halle, Naumburg, Regensburg, and Augsburg—crystallized his architectural vision. Encounters with Theodor Fischer, Peter Behrens, and other luminaries shaped his thinking on modern design and working-class housing.

This limited, numbered 5-volume set preserves his original carnets: manuscripts, sketches, architectural studies, and watercolours that document a pivotal moment in modernism's emergence. These notebooks reveal Le Corbusier's acute engagement with the urban planning and ideological debates that would define his legacy.

An essential primary source for architectural history and design theory.

Four meticulously reproduced travel notebooks of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Le Corbusier on his travels through Germany, which came at the end of his tour of the Orient. In pocket-sized journals, he noted what he saw, sketched ideas and places, and offered thoughtful commentary on his experiences, which took place from 1910-1911. A fifth 160-page volume provides a concise overview of his journey in English, and a reprinting (in French) of his written entries.