Le Corbusier by Nicholas Fox Weber

Author:Nicholas Fox Weber
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307270566
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2008-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

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Le Corbusier stepped up the pace of his return trips to Paris. By the end of November, the arms minister, Raoul Dautry, had asked him to design a large munitions factory intended mainly to produce shotgun cartridges. Dautry gave the architect the rank of colonel and Pierre Jeanneret that of captain. In this time that was the start of a nightmare for many in France, the office staff was increasingly productive.

The onset of winter weather changed that. Since there was no heating oil available, it was impossible to keep the office open and continue staying at 24 rue Nungesser-et-Coli. Le Corbusier returned to Vézelay. Back in the Burgundian village, he painted, worked on large panels, and read English detective novels. He wrote his mother little domestic reports: “Yvonne’s eyes ever dynamic: dynamite.”56 “Pinceau wants to make pipi, Pinceau wants to make caca.”57 He also reflected on the changes he hoped to effect in France:

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