Le Corbusier is well known as an architect，urban planner，and entrepreneur，and also as a publicist，theorist，writer，and photographer，and even as an artist who produced drawings，paintings，and sculpture．Yet there is one activity，related to all these others but not subsumed by any of them，to which Le Corbusier tirelessly devoted himself right up to his death in 1965：the production of books．This activity merits greater attention since Le Corbusier conceived of his books not only as intellectuaI projects but also as concrete works that he intended to master from A to Z．The quantity of books he published iS revealing in itself：thirty-five titles(according to the bibliography that concludes his Iast book，L'Atefier de la recherche patiente')，not counting his contributions to general books on his work nor his countless articles．

MAN OF LETTERS，MAN OF BOOKS

THE PUBLISHING EDlFICE

The Printed OEuvre

A nonstop process

A sprawling，composite output

Bibliog raphic hesitations

A bookish life

Author and Partners-Under tight supervision

Publishing houses，Ltd．

All—powerful author

The uncertain role of literary agent

Younger partners“hot off the press”

MAKING A BOOK

Layout and Typography，From Didot to Dada

A unique-if conventional--image

Dada spirit and Romantic tradition

The parallel message of pictu res

Modernist influences

Typography：Didot and antiques

Stencils

Anti—bibliophile

Unifying an EEuvre through Publication

From laying out the art to the art of layout

Book as metaphor

AutObiographical angle

Jean Petit'S elaboration of a“Corbusier”style

Machine-Age books

Synthesizing the arts：the proof is on the page

An object，a work，a product

Le Corbusier as“reformer”?

Bibllographies

Bibliography of books by Le Corbusier and Jean Petit

Selected bibliography