Corbu's Carnets

Le Corbusier, the founding father of modem architecture, began a journey down the Danube in the spring of 1911, drawing his shoreline observations and organizing his thoughts.

Now his carnetsare being published by Rizzoli in a six-volume, exact-facsimile edition. Scribbles, shapes, and notes on a page may not seem to be the foundation for a building, but these fragments were later reinterpreted by Le Corbusier and can be linked to some of his most important works. When asked to propose a design for the United Nations building in Neu> York, Corbu, more artist than draftsnuin, jotted down a scheme which was then taken away and dei>eloped in more detail. The U.N. building we see today came from Le Corbusier's sketchbook entries. His daily diary uas, as Michael Graves says, a "record of discovery. " -SARA NOLAN

SARA NOLAN