Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture by Charles Jencks

Discussed in this book is Le Corbusier;s career from its early beginnings in Switzerland to the final international years, setting his private life and public image, his theories and his buildings, his paintings and his propaganda in relationship with one another. How he finds the explanations for the belligerence of this prophet of harmony to be his tragic, Nietzschean view of the human condition, with conflict as the key to creation and joy.

Harvard University Press 1974 hardcover edition, second printing in okay condition. Personal inscription inside. See photos.