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From the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect of the twentieth century. Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le Corbusier—a man who invented new ways of building and thinking. Modern Man is a penetrating psychological portrait of a true genius and constant self-inventor, as well as a sweeping tale filled with exotic locales, sex and celebrity (he was a lover of Josephine Baker), and high-stakes projects. In Flint’s telling, Corbusier isn’t just the grandfather of modern architecture but a man who sought to remake the world according to his vision, dispelling the Victorian style and replacing it with something never seen before.
About the Author
Anthony Flint is author of "Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City" (Random House 2009) "This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America" (Johns Hopkins, 2006) and co-editor of "Smart Growth Policies: An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes" (Lincoln Institute, 2009). A journalist for 25 years, primarily at The Boston Globe, he writes about architecture, urban planning and sustainability. He is a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly's The Atlantic Cities, as well as The Boston Globe, The New Republic, GlobalPost, The Next City, Planning magazine, Planetizen, Citiwire, Architecture Boston, and many other publications; author of the blogs At Lincoln House at www.lincolninst.edu, This Land at Boston.com, and Developing Stories at the author's website www.anthonyflint.net. Currently a fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (www.lincolninst.edu), a think-tank in Cambridge, Mass., he served as a policy advisor in the Office for Commonwealth Development, the Massachusetts state agency coordinating growth policy, and has been a fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center and The American Library in Paris, and a visiting scholar and Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is curator and speaker at TEDxBeaconStreet and TEDxTampaBay. His next book, "Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow," a narrative nonfiction account of the father of modern architecture, will be published by Amazon Publishing http://www.apub.com/ in 2014. On Twitter @anthonyflint and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/anthonyflint.author. "Wrestling with Moses" won a Christopher Award in 2010.
