"勒•柯布西耶（Le Corbusier）和撒丁岛出生的雕塑家Costatino Nivola于1946年在纽约见面。他们的会面开启了两人之间的一段终身友谊。柯布西耶在进行联合国项目时和Nivola共用后者在格林威治村的工作室，并于1950年在Nivola东汉普顿（East Hampton）家的厨房里创作了两幅壁画。

这位画家汇集了他的建筑师朋友收藏的约300幅素描，六幅油画和六件雕塑作品，这些作品如今被收藏在欧洲和美洲的各个地方。这本书讲述了这些藏品的故事，并探讨了其意义，从而有助于理解勒•柯布西耶的视觉艺术的演变及其对他的作品在美国的接受度的影响。

Le Corbusier and Sardinian-born sculptor Costatino Nivola met in 1946 in New York. The Franco-Swiss architect was working with a team around Oscar Niemeyer on the project for the United Nations headquarters, the artist had been living there in exile since 1939. Their meeting marked the beginning of a life-long friendship between the two, with Le Corbusier sharing Nivola's Greenwich Village studio while working on the United Nations project and, in 1950, creating two murals in the kitchen of Nivola's East Hampton home.

The artist put together a collection of some 300 drawings, six paintings, and six sculptures by his architect friend which today are held in various places across Europe and America. This book tells the story of the collection and explores its significance, thus contributing to understand the evolution of Le Corbusier's visual art and its impact on the reception of his work in America.

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