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
Available as softcover (9783035627282), hardcover (9783035627299) and limited special edition with three photographic prints (9783035627305)
Pages: 176
Language: English
21 × 27 cm
110 b/w ill., 30 col. ill.
Publication: 19 Feb 2024
ISBN 978-3-0356-2730-5
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.