Just a few years before the Great War, Swiss-French architect Charles-?douard Jeanneret ("Le Corbusier") traveled through the Balkans. Keeping a travel diary along the way, Le Corbusier recorded his first impression of sights that would inspire him throughout his career, including the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon. Over the course of seven months, he visited such locales as Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Istanbul, Pompeii, and Rome, and his accounts of them are supplemented by marvelous freeform sketches that show a different side of this grandiose urban planner.