Third volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "Unlike the carefully-edited books Le Corbusier published on his works, the sketchbooks reveal a man more interested in nature than in mechanization or functionalism, a human being capable of profound religious feelings despite his dry profession of agnosticism - in short, a more intuitive, sensuous personality than is usually assumed. For all of these reasons, publication of the first two volumes in this projected series of four Le Corbusier Sketchbooks has been hailed as 'an architectural event' (RIBA Journal) which helps to clarify our understanding of the man and his work. Over the years, the architect's notations became increasingly elaborate. Problems at Chandigarh that evoked only a passing comment in earlier sketchbooks, in the third volume, here represented, are studied in detail : the way in which concrete was carried in tubs balanced on the workers' heads; the execution and installation of the Open hand; the rationale for different colors used throughout the buildings; the method of installing windows in order to create harmonic undulations of light; even the need to play politics with the Indian government, the constant struggle to meet payrolls and many other unexpected aspects of architecture about which first-hand accounts are rare, all noted." -- from interior flap. Printed in black-and-white and color. Text in English.