Le Corbusier on Camera - The Unknown Films of Ernest Weissmann - Veronique Boone

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, among other places, the Atelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. These films 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.

Across six chapters, the book shows impressive stills from 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 pioneering amateur films and to Ernest Weissmann's life and his life-long relationship with Le Corbusier.

- three special prints of film stills in a pochette
- limited edition, hand numbered
- Swiss hardcover, linen
- multicolored threads (according to Le Corbusier’s color palette of 1930)
- books wrapped in glassine paper


A documentary treasure trove on the life of Le Corbusier
Featuring 80 previously unpublished film stills
Available as softcover, hardcover and limited special edition with three photographic prints

Author:

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 Bjažić 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, ljepši Zagreb!” – arhitektonski i urbanistički natječaji međuratnog 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.