Reseña del libro "Le Corbusier on Camera: The Unknown Films of Ernest Weissmann (en Inglés)"
The book isbased on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (1903-1985) witha Pathé Motocamera in the years 1929-1933 at the Atelier Le Corbusier andPierre Jeanneret, among others. These films have never been published beforeand 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. Insix chapters, the book shows impressive stills of these films and places themin the respective historical and personal context of Le Corbusier inintroductory texts. Two introductions are devoted to the history of these films and ErnestWeissmann's life and his life-long relationship with Le Corbusier. - A documentary treasure trove on the life of Le Corbusier - Featuring 80 previously unpublished film stills - Available as softcover (9783035627282), hardcover(9783035627299) and limited special edition with three photographic prints(9783035627305) Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is considered one of the most famous visionaryarchitects and urban designers of the 20th century. With his cousin, he ran theAtelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret from 1922 until 1940. During thisperiod, most of the practice's modernist villas were built, and bigger workssuch as the Centrosoyus in Moscow, and the Cité de Refuge and the PavillonSuisse in Paris, realized. In parallel, Le Corbusier developed urban-designprojects for such cities as Paris, Antwerp, Algiers, and Buenos Aires, andwrote extensively on his architectural and urbanistic ideas. He continued theAtelier Le Corbusier on an individual base from 1940 on, with projects such asthe Unités d'Habitation in Marseilles and in Nantes-Rezé, Briey, Firminy, andBerlin; the Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette; and the church ofNotre-Dame du Haut Ronchamp. He designed the new state capital of the northIndian states of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh, with its representativebuildings, from 1951 on. Ernest Weissmann (1903-1985) was a Croatian (then-Yugoslav) architectand developer/planner. He graduated in architecture in Zagreb, and worked forAdolf Loos and Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Paris. He dedicated hiswork to the development of the prefabricated hospital-building type and cityplanning viewed from social and economic points of view. He was an activemember of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) from 1929until 1947. From 1942 until 1966, he worked for the United States Board ofEconomic Warfare and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, EconomicCommission, and Department of Economic and Social Affairs. At the UN, Weissmannwas in charge of housing, building, and planning at a global scale.
