{"product_id":"sark-seyahati-le-corbusier","title":"Journey to the East - Istanbul 1911","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an era when mass industrial production reached its peak in Europe, when new technologies constantly forced conventional lifestyles to change, demanding ever more change, a young aspiring architect set off on a journey in search of new horizons…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA journey from Vienna to the east, to Istanbul… Encounters with non-industrialized societies and lifestyles… Encounters with the architectural heritage of the Ottomans and ancient Greeks…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis young Swiss architect, who would leave his mark on 20th-century architecture and art under the name Le Corbusier, recorded this unique experience in notebooks full of writings and drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLe Corbusier, who began his journey with mischievous critiques of European modernization, surrendered to feelings of curiosity, discovery, and admiration in the Ottoman country, then on the verge of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe savored Istanbul at a time when the Tripolitanian and Balkan Wars were on the verge of overshadowing the enthusiasm of the Second Constitutional Era, and witnessed the Fatih-Altımermer Fire, which reduced a large part of the city to ashes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLe Corbusier’s travel notes, which he first partially published in a local newspaper and then compiled into a book half a century later—notes that played an important role in the formation of his architectural understanding—are now being published in our language for the first time in their entirety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLe Corbusier (1887-1965), born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, was the son of a watchmaker in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. His interest in art led him to the art school in his city. Encouraged by his teacher and patron Charles L’Epplatenier, he embarked on long journeys. In 1907, he encountered reinforced concrete at the architectural office where he worked in Paris. In 1910-11, he was in an architectural office in Berlin. In late 1911, he arrived in the Ottoman Empire via the Balkans. The notes and sketchbooks he kept along the way later became this book. The architectural forms and solutions he encountered in Istanbul, Bursa, and Athens during this trip became the cornerstones of his architectural understanding.\u003cbr\u003eHis professional life, which began before the Great War, was interwoven with many pioneering ideas and practices. In 1920, he adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier. In 1922, he opened an office in Paris. While building villas for his clients, he also developed pioneering ideas in urban planning. For Paris, which faced a serious housing problem due to rural-to-urban migration, he prepared the 'Ville Contemporaine' project in 1922, which envisioned the demolition of a part of the city center and its reconstruction with skyscrapers and prefabricated housing. The ideas in this project, if not in Paris, were implemented by American architects after World War II. He argued that mass production could be used in architecture as well as in automobiles, and could reduce costs. Instead of metric measurement in architecture, he designed and used the 'modulor' scale, which was based on the proportions of the human body. He also designed furniture for his homes. He wrote nearly 50 books explaining his ideas and works. Vers une Architecture (1923), La Ville Radieuse (1935), Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches (1937), Propos d’urbanisme (1946), Le modulor (1950) are some of them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46880684245235,"sku":"9789944886062","price":594.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/files\/sarkseyahati.webp?v=1744616630","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/sark-seyahati-le-corbusier","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}