Le Corbusier on Camera

Der Architekt Ernest Weissmann (1903-1985) drehte in den Jahren 1929-1933 Amateurfilme mit einer Pathé Motocamera u.a. im Atelier Le Corbusier und Pierre Jeanneret, die bis dato unveröffentlicht sind und Momente aus Le Corbusiers Leben und Alltag einfangen, die man so bislang nicht kennt. Dokumentiert werden darin auch seine Freundschaften etwa mit Pierre Jeanneret, Josep Lluís Sert, Charlotte Perriand, Norman Rice, Kunio Maekawa, Sigfried Giedion u.a. Das Buch zeigt in sechs Kapiteln eindrucksvolle Standbilder der Filme und ordnet sie in einführenden Texten in den jeweiligen historischen und persönlichen Kontext Le Corbusiers ein. Zwei Einleitungen widmen sich der Geschichte des Auffindens dieser Filme sowie dem Leben Ernest Weissmanns und seiner lebenslangen Freundschaft mit Le Corbusier. Eine Trouvaille aus dem Leben Le Corbusiers Mit 80 bislang unveröffentlichten Standbildern Als Softcover (9783035627282), Hardcover (9783035627299) und limitierte Sonderausgabe mit drei separaten Sonderdrucken erhältlich (9783035627305)

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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 the construction history, 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 correspondant 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.

Tamara Bjai Klarin is Senior Research Advisor at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. She graduated in architecture and received a PhD in History of Art at Zagreb. Her field of expertise is 20th-century urban planning and architectural history, with a focus on knowledge exchange and public engagement by architects. She authored the books Ernest Weissmann. Socially Engaged Architecture, 1926-39 and "Za bolji, ljepi Zagreb!" - arhitektonski i urbanisti ki natje aji me uratnog Zagreba, 1918-1941 . She was an expert adviser for the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 , MoMA, 2018-2019. She has co-authored several TV broadcasts and documentaries on architecture produced by Croatian National Television (with Ana Marija Habjan). In 2014, she was an academic guest at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the ETH in Zurich.