''L'Esprit Nouveau'' () was a magazine founded by architect

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...

, poet

Paul Dermée Paul Dermée (1886–1951) was a Belgian writer, poet, literary critique. Born Camille Janssen in Liège, Belgium in 1886, he died in Paris in 1951. He knew the painters Picasso, Juan Gris, Sonia and Robert Delaunay and the poets Valéry Larbaud ...

, and painter

Amédée Ozenfant Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 – 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter and writer. Together with Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (later known as Le Corbusier) he founded the Purist movement. Education Ozenfant was born into a bourgeois f ...

in 1920. The publication addressed a wide range of artistic disciplines including literature, visual arts, and architecture. The articles written by Le Corbusier for ''L'Esprit Nouveau'' comprise a number of those appearing in his seminal 1923 book ''

Toward an Architecture ''Vers une architecture'', recently translated into English as ''Toward an Architecture'' but commonly known as ''Towards a New Architecture'' after the 1927 translation by Frederick Etchells, is a collection of essays written by Le Corbusier (C ...

''. ''L'Esprit Nouveau'' remained in publication, until 1925, releasing a total of 28 copiesL'Esprit Nouveau
Biblioteca di Area delle Arti sezione Architettura "Enrico Mattiello"

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