Space Calculated in Seconds Tapa dura - 1996

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Linnen band met stofomslag, 29 cm, 282 pp. Ills.: z/w en kleurenillustraties. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 0691021376. .

The pavilion designed by Le Corbusier for the Philips Company at the 1958 Brussels World's fair broadcasted a landmark multimedia production. The nearly two million visitors who entered the pavilion were treated not to the usual display of consumer products, but to a dazzling demonstration of cutting-edge technology in the service of the arts. This totally automated spectacle consisted of colour, voice, sound, and images sperimposed in a curvilinear space of concrete, orchestrated by Le Corbusier and his colleagues into a 480-second program. Here, Marc Treib looks at both this collaboration and the significance of the Philips project. Achieving for the first time his interest in using electronic media as a synthesis of the arts, Le Corbusier worked with the filmaker Philippe Agostini, the graphic designer and editor Jean Petit, the architect/composer Iannis Xenakis, and the composer Edgar Varese, whose piece "Poeme electronique" was composed for this project. Treib explains the idea and development of… Leer más

Princeton University Press, 1996. 1. Hardcover. Good. Good in a Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Dust jacket is moderately edgeworn, otherwise is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped(Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Moderate wear to the boards; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Good binding with straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 3.0 lbs; Yello and grey dust jacket with title in red and white lettering; 1996, Princeton University Press; 312 pages; "Space Calculated in Seconds," by Marc Treib.

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