Le Corbusier Book
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’Le Corbusier and Lucien Hervé: The Architect & the Photographer - A Dialogue’, by Jacques Sbriglio, documents the 15-year collaboration of modernist architect Le Corbusier with photographer Lucien Hervé. The lensman with ’an architect’s soul’ shot not only Corbu’s most iconic buildings but his personal residences as well. Le Corbusier, who rarely allowed himself to be photographed, is seen here in front of his sculpture ’The Totem’ at his apartment on rue Nungesser-et-Coli in Paris
One of two Maisons Jaoul in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris. Le Corbusier completed construction on the brick and concrete buildings in 1955. The interiors were painted in brilliant primary colours, which Hervé’s photos don’t capture
Reinforcement materials awaiting concrete at Secretariat, an administrative building in Chandigarh
Hervé captures the organic forms inside the High Court of Justice, part of Le Corbusier’s plan for Chandigarh, the Punjab’s new capital
Workers at the High Court of Justice in Chandigarh
Exterior views of Secretariat, photographed in 1961. Jacques Sbriglio describes the building as containing ’a small city within its walls’
Le Corbusier outside his masterpiece, Unité d’habitation in Marseilles, the 337-apartment complex that set the standard for for communal living in Europe. It was under construction between 1945 and 1952
Le Corbusier in Chandigarh for the construction of Secretariat
The architect and photographer together in Chandigarh
The horizontal cover for the 296-page tome, published last week by Thames & Hudson, £29.95
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