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For the first time, still images of groundbreaking Swiss-French
architect, Le Corbusier, and others, filmed by fellow architect, Ernest
Weissmann.
The book is based on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (1903-1985) with a Pathé Motocamera in the years 1929-1933 at the Atelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, among others. These films have never been published before and capture moments from Le Corbusier's life that have never been seen before. It also documents his friendships with Pierre Jeanneret, Josep Lluís Sert, Charlotte Perriand, Norman Rice, Kunio Maekawa, Sigfried Giedion and others. In six chapters, the book shows impressive stills of these films and places them in the respective historical and personal context of Le Corbusier in introductory texts.
Two introductions are devoted to the history of these films and Ernest Weissmann's life and his life-long relationship with Le Corbusier.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is considered one of the most famous
visionary architects and urban designers of the 20th century. With his
cousin, he ran the Atelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret from 1922
until 1940. During this period, most of the practice's modernist villas
were built, and bigger works such as the Centrosoyus in Moscow, and the
Cité de Refuge and the Pavillon Suisse in Paris, realized. In parallel,
Le Corbusier developed urban-design projects for such cities as Paris,
Antwerp, Algiers, and Buenos Aires, and wrote extensively on his
architectural and urbanistic ideas. He continued the Atelier Le
Corbusier on an individual base from 1940 on, with projects such as the
Unités d'Habitation in Marseilles and in Nantes-Rezé, Briey, Firminy,
and Berlin; the Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette; and the church
of Notre-Dame du Haut Ronchamp. He designed the new state capital of
the north Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh, with its
representative buildings, from 1951 on.
Veronique Boone is an architect from the University of Ghent, Belgium and doctor from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Lille (ENSAPL), France and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta at the ULB. She lectures on architectural history and theory as well as on the conservation of 20th-century architecture. Her research focuses on the history and theory, as well as alternative narratives of modern architecture. She has published extensively in academic publications on Le Corbusier and the mediation of architecture by film and television, and is a correspondent for Belgian and international architectural magazines on contemporary architecture. She has worked on several exhibitions as curator and/or contributor to catalogues - among them, Lucien Hervé, l'oeil de l'architecte, CIVA, 2005; Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography, Musée des beaux-arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2012; L'Architecture modern à l'écran, Cinematek, 2014; In the Studio at 35, rue de Sèvres: an Amateur cameraman's Informal View, Fondation Le Corbusier, 2017 and Atelier Jespers, 2018. She is also Vice-President of DOCOMOMO Belgium.
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