Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret association copy of Jindřich Kumpošt

Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret – Two Houses (Zwei Wohnhäuser) Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fr. Wedekind & Co., 1928. 4to. 49 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, plans, and diagrams. With two four-panel foldout plans at rear. Original photographic wrappers. Provenance: Ownership signature of Jindřich Kumpošt on the title page. The front cover is additionally inscribed “Leden 1944” (January 1944), presumed in Kumpošt’s hand. A classic early German publication documenting two key residential works by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, issued during the formative years of European Modernism. Edited by Alfred Roth, the book includes a clear exposition of Le Corbusier’s Five Points of a New Architecture—pilotis, free plan, free façade, ribbon windows, and roof garden—illustrated through measured drawings, floor plans, sections, elevations, and period photographs. The rear foldouts provide unusually large, precise plan sequences that make the publication especially useful as a design reference rather than a purely theoretical text. Jindřich Kumpošt (1891–1968) was a Czech functionalist architect and urbanist active primarily in Brno and Prague, associated with the interwar Czechoslovak avant-garde that translated international Modernist ideas into a Central European context. Educated in the progressive architectural culture of the First Czechoslovak Republic, Kumpošt absorbed the principles of functionalism—clarity of structure, rational planning, hygienic light and air, and the social role of architecture—that closely paralleled Le Corbusier’s program. His housing designs and urban proposals show a marked affinity with Corbusian functionalist ideas. Condition: Very good. Light wear and rubbing along the spine border; 2-cm closed tear at lower spine. Interior clean and bright; foldout plans intact and well-preserved. Association copy linking Le Corbusier’s foundational housing theory directly to one of the key figures of Czech functionalist architecture. Inv. Bx2