Etude sur le mouvement d'art decoratif en Allemagne (A Study of the Decorative Arts Movement in Germany)

摘要

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (better known as Le Corbusier, a pseudonym adopted in connection with his work as an architect) published his first small book, Etude sur le mouvement d'art decoratif en Allemagne (A Study of the Decorative Arts Movement in Germany), in 1912. Researched during the course of an extended stay in Germany between April 1910 and May 1911, the Etude had been commissioned by the Ecole d'Art of his Swiss hometown, La Chaux-de-Fonds. There, beginning in 1902, Jeanneret had studied decorative art for five years in preparation for a career in the local watch-making industry. Under the tutelage of Charles L'Eplattenier, his teacher and mentor throughout this period, the young man's horizons, and his ambitions, gradually broadened beyond the study of art and ornament to embrace architecture and eventually urbanism as well.