How to Build Fictional Characters (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret set about the taks of reinventing everything he had touched, from himself to architecture. Famously, he began with his own name. His resonant pseudonym, Le Corbusier, meant crow-like, and he spent most of his career observing - as if from the air, like a crow - the wide horizon of worldwide developments in architecture, painting, writing, urbanism and politics. From this bird-eye view he picked out the topics that interested him the most, before touching down to develop his work in more detail, through an interplay of the different disciplines.