1st Edition
Towards a Public Space Le Corbusier and the Greco-Latin Tradition in the Modern City
Introduction
1. Height + 0.00 metres: centre civique
2. Height + 50.00 metres: toit civique
3. The sameness of ratios
4. Dichotomy in ratios
5. Civic centre and civic roof as models
Biography
Marta Sequeira holds a professional degree in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon (2001) and a PhD in Architectural Projects from the School of Architecture of the Barcelona Technical College (2008). Since 2008 she has been an associate professor at the University of Évora—between 2011 and 2012 she was Head of its Department of Architecture—and she presently lectures at the Faculty of Architecture in the University of Lisbon. She has won, with the research presented in this book, the Prix de la Recherche Patiente, granted by the Fondation Le Corbusier in 2016.
'Le Corbusier’s inclination towards the Mediterranean is no secret. It is telling that he died in 1965 while at last revising for publication the manuscript of his 1911 Journey to the East. But the full extent of his debt to ancient Greece and Rome had never been fully exposed. Thanks to a rigorous study of his surviving sketches and an illuminating analysis of his designs, Marta Sequeira has firmly mapped the historical precedents and their agency in Le Corbusier’s late work.' Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA
