Finding Aid for the Lucien Hervé photographs of architecture and artworks by Le Corbusier 2002.R.41
Talia Olshefsky
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Title: Lucien Hervé photographs of architecture and artworks by Le Corbusier
Creator:
Hervé, Lucien
Creator:
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Identifier/Call Number: 2002.R.41
Physical Description:
12.6 Linear Feet
(42 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1949-1965
Abstract: The collection contains over 18,000 photographic negatives, 1,700 color slides, and 1,200 transparencies taken by Lucien Hervé,
Le Corbusier's official photographer. Organized by project, this photographic material includes both Hervé's original negatives
and copys negatives from the work of other photographers who have documented Le Corbusier's architectural projects. Subjects
include Le Corbusier's executed buildings, unrealized architectural designs, and non-architectural works, such as paintings,
tapestries, and sculptures. The collection also contains hundreds of portraits of Le Corbusier, both formal and informal.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in English, with some French.
Biographical / Historical
One of the most prominent architectural photographers of the twentieth century, Lucien Hervé created a body of work, inspired
by a Modernist philosophy, that remains uniquely identifiable. His tightly cropped images, in high contrast, offering oblique
views, and often favoring the shadows cast by a form over an investigation of the form itself place an emphasis on mood, and
on providing the viewer access to the transcendental nature of structure. Although Hervé worked with many of the influential
architects of the twentieth century, his fifteen-year collaboration with architect Le Corbusier defines his career. Hervé
served as Le Corbusier's official photographer from 1949 until the architect's death in 1965.
Lucien Hervé was born László Elkán on August 7, 1910, in Hódmezovásárhely, a city in south-east Hungary. The son of middle-class
parents, Elkán showed artistic inclinations as a child, first through seriously dedicating himself to the piano, and later
bydemonstrating an interest in drawing. At the age of eighteen he left home for Vienna, Austria, enrolling in university to
study economics, an endeavor that was soon abandoned in favor of drawing courses at Vienna's Akademie der bildenden Künste.
A year later he went to Paris, taking a job as a bank clerk, while spending his free time exploring the city's museums. By
the early 1930s he had become involved in fashion, and worked as a designer for many notable houses, including Patou, Chanel,
Rochas, and Schiaparelli.
The worldwide Great Depression had a crushing impact on the economy and social stability of Paris in the 1930s. Lingering
post-war debt and vast unemployment led to the legal implementation of shortened work-hours, which sparked labor disputes,
worker strikes, and violent confrontations. This unstable climate inspired Elkán to join the French Communist Party in 1934.
He was instrumental in the organization of the 1935 Paris labor strikes and became the secretary-general of the Central Labor
Organization, a labor union affiliated with the Communist Party. Elkán was expelled from the Communist Party in 1938, after
which he began working with fellow Hungarian Nicolás Müller, the cousin of a close friend. The pair produced several articles
for the publication
Marianne, a weekly Paris news magazine. Müller spoke very little French, so Elkán produced the text, while Müller supplied the photographs,
and the resulting essays were credited to Müller. Müller left France for Spain in September 1938, and Elkán continued producing
photographs for the magazine using Müller's byline.
By 1939 Elkán had become a naturalized citizen of France and was drafted into the French army. He continued to take photographs
during his service, producing photo essays that were published in
Vu. Captured by German forces during the Battle of Dunkirk in June 1940, he was held captive as a prisoner of war in East Prussia,
and later formally arrested for his involvement in resistance activities within the prison camp. In September 1941 he escaped
and traveled to Vichy, France, where he resumed his work with the French Resistance. By 1943 he had rejoined the Communist
Party, and this time he did so under a new name - Lucien Hervé.
Hervé spent the following years actively involved in the Mouvement National des Prisonniers de Guerre et Déportés, until his
second expulsion from the Communist Party in June 1947. At this time he took pictures for a variety of magazines, including
France Illustration,
Points de vue,
Regards, and
Lilliput. He also notably returned to an architectural subject he had first explored ten years earlier, the Eiffel Tower. Hervé took
hundreds of photographs of the cultural icon, even reviewing its architectural plans, a tactic he would later employ in his
consideration of Le Corbusier's work.
A desire to meet and photograph Henri Matisse led Hervé to connect with Father Marie-Alain Couturier, a Dominican priest who
had befriended Matisse during the construction of the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence on the French Riviera. Father Couturier,
the publisher of the French journal
L'art sacré, has been credited with bringing a modern perspective to religious art. In 1949 Father Couturier was in Marseille, and happened
to walk by the construction site of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation; he contacted Hervé suggesting the housing project would
make a suitable subject for Hervé's lens. Hervé approached the publication
France Illustration seeking a commission, but the idea was not well received. Fortunately
Plaisir de France felt differently, and Hervé departed for Marseille on assignment in early December 1949. Due to limited funds, Hervé gave
himself one day to photograph the housing block with his Rolleiflex 6x6, famously shooting six hundred and fifty negatives
over the course of a bright and sunny day.
In accordance with a notice posted at the building site's entrance instructing that copies of all photographs taken of the
building be sent directly to Le Corbusier, Hervé promptly sent the architect contact prints of his negatives. On December
15, 1949, Hervé received a letter of praise from Le Corbusier - a now well-documented letter that marked a new beginning in
Hervé's career, as well as the beginning of an enduring relationship though which, in a sentiment expressed so well by Marco
Iuliano, a "new, more humane idea of Modernity was formed and broadcast around the world (Iuliano, 2016, 1100)." From that
point onward, Lucien Hervé served as Le Corbusier's official photographer. Hervé photographed Le Corbusier's current architectural
projects, and was also commissioned by the architect to document earlier projects. Le Corbusier wanted to see all of his architecture
through Hervé's lens, so as to create a stylistic harmony in the documentation of his ideas. The two men worked closely to
create a visual archive of Le Corbusier's architecture and artwork, producing a multitude of highly-edited sets of negatives
and contact prints that function as the official record of Le Corbusier's legacy.
Le Corbusier experienced heart-failure while swimming at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in August, 1965. The collaboration that had
defined Hervé's career had ended, but he would continue to be recruited by many renowned architects, all eager to see their
work translated through this photographer with the so-called "soul of an architect" (Le Corbusier to Lucien Hervé, December,
1949.) He photographed the work of Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Paolo Nervi, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Oscar Niemeyer,
and Frank Lloyd Wright. Hervé was also generous with his time, and frequently engaged with young architectural students who
came to him seeking advice.
Hervé died on the 26th of June, 2007, in Paris, France, at the age of 96.
Bibliography
Beer, Olivier.
Lucien Hervé: Building Images. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2004.
Iuliano, Marco. "Lucien Hervé and Le Corbusier: Pair or Peers?"
The Journal of Architecture 21:7(2016): 1100-1126.
Sbriglio, Jacques.
Le Corbusier & Lucien Hervé: A Dialogue Between Architect and Photographer. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in two series:
Series I. Architectural projects (1905-1968), 1949-1965;
Series II. Artwork, portraits, and notebooks (1907-circa 1960), 1949-1965, undated.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for use by qualified researchers.
Preferred Citation
Lucien Hervé photographs of architecture and artworks by Le Corbusier, 1949-1965, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles,
Accession no. 2002.R.41.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r41
Related Materials
Le Corbusier manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and photographs, 1911-1970 (bulk 1920-1955), Getty Research Institute,
accession no. 920083.
Persistent Link: http://primo.getty.edu/GRI:GETTY_ALMA21137782530001551
Collection contains manuscripts for lectures (including radio talks), published and unpublished writings that include a film
project, sketches related to writings on modern architecture, urbanism, and correspondence.
"Le Corbusier, 1954." Alexander Liberman photography archive, ca. 1925-ca. 1998. Getty Research Institute, accession no. 2000.R.19.
Persistent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2000r19_107
Portraits of Le Corbusier in his Paris studio taken by Alexander Liberman. Consists of six black-and-white photographs.
"Job 3624: Le Corbusier, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963." Julius Shulman photography
archive, 1936-1997. Getty Research Institute, accession no. 2004.R.10.
Persistent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2004r10/job3624
Exterior views of Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, taken by photographer Julius
Shulman. Consists of five black-and-white photographs.
Scope and Contents
This collection presents the work of Le Corbusier, the influential artist, thinker, and pioneering Modernist architect, as
seen through the lens of photographer Lucien Hervé. Hervé was chosen by Le Corbusier to be his official photographer in 1949,
a role Hervé maintained until the architect's death in 1965. Le Corbusier felt that there was no photographer who better understood
his architecture than Hervé, and therefore commissioned him to document both the new buildings he designed and built in the
1950s and 1960s, and older ones completed before World War II. The collection includes images of executed buildings, unrealized
architectural designs, portraits, and Le Corbusier's non-architectural works, including his sketches, notes, paintings, and
sculptures.
Series I contains photographic negatives, transparencies, and slides documenting 119 of Le Corbusier's architectural projects.
It includes the 650 negatives of L'Unité d'habitation à Marseille shot by Hervé in December 1949; his striking images of the
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp; and his extensive documentation of Le Corbusier's multiple structures in Chandigarh
and Ahmedabad, India. This matieral not only serves as a record of Hervé's photographic practice, but also inherently demonstrates
the role Hervé played in Le Corbusier's attempt to document his own legacy. Some of the negatives in this series are copy
negatives (predominantly glass plates) produced in the 1920s and 1930s by the various photographers previously employed by
Le Corbusier. Hervé's work copying these images, labeling them and compiling them chronologically by project, shows us the
level at which he and the architect were mutually committed to creating a comprehensive visual archive.
Le Corbusier sought the services of many photographers throughout his career. The following is a list of those known to have
documented his work, followed by the dates they are known to have produced images for Le Corbusier. This series contains Hervé's
copies of original negatives by some or all of the following photographers:
Frédéric Boissonnas (1924-1928); Charles Gérard (1924-1928); Thiriet (1928-1930); Marius Gravot (1930-1933); René Lévy (1934);
Albin Salaun (1934 to late 1940s); Jacques Thalmann; the brothers Chevojon; Marius Car; Louis Sciarli; Vittorio Mazzucconi;
Brassaï; Robert Doisneau; René Burri; Sigfried Giedion; Frank-Henri Jullien; and René Maestri.
Series II contains Hervé's images of Le Corbusier's life and work, extending beyond the scope of his architectural practice.
It documents Le Corbusier's artwork, often depicting his sketches and paintings shot individually in the studio at 24 rue
Nungesser-et-Coli, Paris; "on site" elements of architectural projects such as Le Modulor imprinted in concrete at L'Unité
d'habitation à Nantes-Rezé and the tapestries and murals of Chandigarh, and artwork shot on site at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
Both Le Corbusier's cabanon and E-1027, and the art they contained, are well documented. It includes Hervé's portraits of
Le Corbusier, from fleeting moments captured during site visits, to formal portrait sessions, to intimate images of Le Corbusier,
his wife Yvonne, and friends vacationing by the sea at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. This series also includes images taken from
Le Corbusier's notebooks (including those created during his travels through Europe in the early 1900s); documentation of
exhibitions of Le Corbusier's work; and a small number of miscellaneous images and reference materials labeled "collections
d'objets trouvés."
Similar to Series I, some of the negatives in Series II were not produced by Hervé. It contains original, pre-World War II
negatives (photographers unknown), that are believed to have been acquired by Hervé through Le Corbusier, probably intentionally
in order to have them added to Le Corbusier's overall "archive."
The black-and-white negatives in this collection were those used to produce the much-publicized contact sheets Hervé and Le
Corbusier created as a visual archive of Le Corbusier's work. The Getty Research Institute maintains digital reproductions
of these contact prints that are available online for consultation; the original contact sheets are held in the Fondation
Le Corbusier, Paris, France. See Photographic reproductions of Lucien Hervé contact sheets [Photographed ca. 1950- ca. 1965;
digitized 2009].
All dates enclosed in parentheses represent project dates, or the dates of the original material in the case of artworks and
notebooks, and do not reflect specific dates of exposure or printing for this photographic material, as these dates remain
undetermined.
Processing Information
In the fall of 2006 Alan Tomlinson rehoused this collection in archival binders and conducted a detailed inventory of its
scope and contents, with the exception of five boxes of negatives which remained unprocessed.
In the fall of 2016, Talia Olshefsky completed the processing of the remaining five boxes (Boxes 39-42) by rehousing them
and cataloging their contents. Olshefsky created this finding aid based on Tomlinson's original inventory and documentation,
under the supervision of Ann Harrison.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 2002.
Digitized Material
Selected materials from Series I. were digitized by the repository in 2009 and are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2010r14
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architects -- France
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
Architectural photography -- 20th century
Architectural projects (1905-1967), Series I.
1949-1965
Scope and Contents
This series documents Le Corbusier's architectural projects, including executed buildings, unrealized designs, and conceptual
planning projects, through photographic slides and negatives, some of which are accompanied by contact prints. Organized by
project, this photographic material was compiled by Lucien Hervé and Le Corbusier, and includes both Hervé's negatives and
copies of negatives made by other photographers, including but not limited to, Charles Gérard, Marius Gravot, and Frédéric
Boissonnas. Hervé worked closely with Le Corbusier on the selection of images for publication, and he also played the role
of archivist by collecting, or creating, copies of existing images of Le Corbusier's early work. Included in this series are
many images of pages from the eight volumes of
Le Corbusier: Œuvre complète, depicting the publication of photographs and drawings, which again highlights the comprehensiveness of Hervé's efforts.
While the majority of the black-and-white images of architectural projects completed during the 1920s and 1930s in this series
are copy negatives of images taken by other photographers, it is important to note that they are frequently accompanied by
color slides of the same buildings and sites taken by Hervé during the 1950s and 1960s.
Many of the copy negatives present here are assumed to have originally been glass plate negatives and many were numbered,
either on the plate itself or on a corresponding contact print. Where these numbers have been identified, they are noted as:
"Original negative numbers." The copy negatives are of various sizes and include negatives believed to have been made from
interpositives (many on crudely-cut unlabeled film, fogged and slightly warped); negatives made from prints (made on pre-war
4 x 5 in. film, unlabeled process film, and post-war film); and negatives derived from positives of original glass plate negatives.
Also included are positives of original glass plate negatives, which are the sharpest of all copies.
All negatives have been rehoused with their original order maintained, with the exception of negatives that were mislabeled.
Mislabeled negatives have been integrated into the correct project. Hervé assigned letter codes and a numbering system to
each project, but due to a large number of inconsistencies and material without designation, each negative was individually
numbered by the Getty Research Institute during the original processing in 2006. The codes and numbering produced by the Getty
are inspired by the way in which Hervé labeled material. All project titles, their punctuation, and dates have been taken
directly from Le Corbusier's publications
Le Corbusier: Oeuvre complète (Volumes 1-8), unless otherwise noted. The dates listed in parentheses are project dates, and do not reflect the dates on which the material
was shot or printed.
Many of the black-and-white negatives in this series are accompanied by original annotated paper folders or glassine envelopes,
and contact prints. Their presence is noted where applicable.
Additional information: In the fall of 2006, Allan Tomlinson conducted a detailed inventory of this collection. His resulting document contains
the same information found in this finding aid, but at a more granular level, often describing the specific views depicted
in individual negatives. All negative dimensions in this series were taken directly from this legacy data, therefore the data
is accurate, but not always consistently expressed in standard archival nomenclature. Click here to view this original document:
2006 Inventory .
Arrangement
This series is arranged in chronological order by architectural project.
Villa Fallet (1905-1907)
Scope and Contents
Title taken from the catalog for the exhibition
Le Corbusier: Architect of the Century, Hayward Gallery, London, 1987.
Box 1
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
9 items
6 x 8 cm., 6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VF 1-8A: Exterior views of villa. VF 7 is accompanied by an original annotated glassine envelope.
Box 1
Color slides
Physical Description:
47 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VF 9-55: Exterior views of villa. Two slides are unmounted. VF 37-55 are misidentified in notes on mounts as photographs of
Villa Stotzer or Villa Jaquemet.
Box 1
Villa Stotzer (1907-1908)
Physical Description:
21 items
color slides
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
ST 1-21: Exterior views.
Title taken from the catalog for the exhibition
La Chaux-de-Fonds et Jeanneret avant Le Corbusier, Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 1987.
Villa Jaquemet (1907-1908)
Scope and Contents
Title taken from the catalog for the exhibition
La Chaux-de-Fonds et Jeanneret avant Le Corbusier, Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 1987.
Box 1
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
5 items
6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
VJ 60-64: Exterior views and details of villa.
Box 1
Color slides
Physical Description:
59 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VJ 1-59: Exterior views of villa and gardens. Some slides are misidentified in notes on mounts as Villa Stotzer or Villa Jeanneret.
VJ 21 and 36 are misidentified as Villa Jacot.
Box 1
Ateliers d'artiste (1910)
Physical Description:
1 item
black-and-white negative
4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
AA 1: Image of page 22 of
Oeuvre complète, Volume 1, depicting perspective drawings for a group of artists' studios.
Villa Favre-Jacot (1912)
Scope and Contents
A private residence built for Georges Favre-Jacot, the founder of the watch manufacturing company Zenith SA, Le Locle, Switzerland.
Title taken from the catalog for the exhibition
La Chaux-de-Fonds et Jeanneret avant Le Corbusier, Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 1987.
Box 1
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
5 items
6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
FJ 1-5: Exterior views and details of villa.
Box 1
Color slides
Physical Description:
39 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
FJ 6-44: Exterior views of villa, general views of villa's surroundings, and one general view of Le Locle, Switzerland, the
municipality of the villa.
Villa Jeanneret (1912)
Scope and Contents
A private residence built for Le Corbusier's parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Also known as "Villa Jeanneret-Perret"
or "Maison Blanche."
Title taken from the catalog for the exhibition
La Chaux-de-Fonds et Jeanneret avant Le Corbusier, Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 1987.
Box 1
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
5 items
6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
JE 1-4A: Exterior views of villa and gardens.
Box 1
Color slides
Physical Description:
65 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
JE 5-69: Exterior views of villa and gardens.
Maison "Dom-ino" (1914-1915)
Scope and Contents
A conceptual design for a wall-less, open floor plan structure that could be applied to the mass production of housing units.
Box 2
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
8 items
4 x 5 in., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
MD 1-7, 9: Images of pages of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1. MD 1-3 are pages 24-26; MD 4 is page 23 (with the text masked out); MD 5-9 are images of the illustrations on page 26.
Box 2
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
7 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
MD 8, 10-15: Images of illustrations on page 26 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1.
Villa Schwob (1916-1917)
Scope and Contents
A private residence built for watchmaker Anatole Schwob in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Also known as "Villa Turque."
Title taken from the catalog for the 1987 Hayward Gallery exhibition
Le Corbusier, Architect of the Century.
Box 2
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
46 items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 8 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
SC 1-45 [including SC 37A]: Views of the villa under construction, interior and exterior views, and a general view of La Chaux-de-Fonds,
Switzerland. SC 36 is accompanied by an original paper folder and a contact print.
Box 2
Color transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
SC 73: Interior view.
Box 2
Color slides
Physical Description:
27 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
SC 46-72: Exterior views.
Box 2
Troyes (1919)
Physical Description:
2 items
black-and-white negatives
88 x 120 mm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
TR 1-2: Images of pages 26 and 29 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1, depicting an unrealized design for a concrete housing development in Troyes, France. Also known as the "Cité ouvrière du
Vouldy." Both negatives are accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Box 2
Maison "Monol" (1920)
Physical Description:
1 item
black-and-white negative
90 x 120 mm.
Scope and Contents
MN 1: Image of page 30 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1 (with the text masked off), depicting an unrealized design for a suburban housing development.
Box 2
Maison "Citrohan" (1920)
Physical Description:
8 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
MC 1-8: Images of drawings and models for an unrealized project, a design for a modern house that stresses efficiency of space
and the use of standardized building materials. MC 7-8 are accompanied by original annotated glassine sleeves.
Box 2
Salon d'automne (1922)
Physical Description:
1 item
black-and-white negative
174 x 235 mm.
Scope and Contents
SO 1: Image of a plan for
Une Ville Contemporaine being exhibited in 1922 at the Salon d'automne, an annual art exhibition held in Paris, France.
Villa à Vaucresson (1922)
Scope and Contents
Private residence built for George Besnus in Vaucresson, France. Also known as "Villa Besnus" or "Ker-Ka-Re."
Box 2
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
8 items
4 x 5 in., 6 x 8 cm., 117 x 177 mm.
Scope and Contents
VV 1-8: Exterior views and one interior view. VV 1, 3 and 8-11 are accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Original negative numbers:
VV 4: 45 and 466; VV 6: 46 and 469.
Box 2
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
3 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VV 9-12: Interior views and one exterior view.
Maison du peintre Ozenfant à Paris (1922-1924)
Scope and Contents
A structure combining both private living quarters and a painting studio for Amédée Ozenfant, Paris, France.
Box 2
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
17 items
5 x 7 in., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
MO 1-17: Exterior views of entire structure, and interior views of studio. MO 7, 9 and 17 are accompanied by their original
annotated glassine envelopes.
Original negative numbers:
MO 3: 68 (?) and 446;
MO 4-5: 63 (two copies of same negative);
MO 11: 61 and 481;
MO 13-15: 64 and 479 (three copies of same negative).
Box 2
Color slides
Physical Description:
46 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
MO 18-63: Exterior and interior views.
Immeubles-villas (1922-1925)
Scope and Contents
Unrealized design for a large-scale housing block with 120 rentable units.
Box 2
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
3 items
87 x 112 mm., 68 x 111 mm., 55 x 87 mm.
Scope and Contents
IV 1-3: Images of pages 41, 43 and 92 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1.
Box 2
Black-and-white slide
Physical Description:
1 item
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
IV 4: Image of page 43 of
Œuvre complète, Volume. 1.
Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret (1923-1924)
Scope and Contents
Images of a project consisting of two private residences that are physically connected, located in the 16th arrondissement,
Paris, France. Villa La Roche was designed for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker, while the adjacent Villa Jeanneret was designed
for Albert Jeanneret (Le Corbusier's brother) and Lotti Raaf. The project was designed by both Le Corbusier and his cousin
Pierre Jeanneret. Both dwellings now house the Fondation Le Corbusier, which includes a museum and archives. Some of the black-and-white
negatives for this project are copies of images originally produced by Frédéric Boissonnas, circa 1925.
Box 2
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
179 items
5 x 7 in., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 9 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
ML 1-62, 64-176 [including 40A-40B, 74A]: Exterior and interior views, including the entrance front of both houses, the dining
room in Maison La Roche, and the living room in Maison Jeanneret. Many of the negatives are accompanied by their original
annotated glassine envelopes.
Original negative numbers:
ML 1: number indecipherable;
ML 7: 490 (?);
ML 8-9: 487 (last digit faded);
ML 10-11: 106;
ML 65: 118;
ML 66-68: 119 and 540 (540 is crossed out);
ML 73: 115.
Box 3
Color slides
Physical Description:
158 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
ML 177-334: Exterior and interior views, and details of roof terraces and garden. Includes views of the gallery wing of Maison
La Roche and the artworks displayed there.
Note: ML 197 and 198 are misidentified in notes on mounts as "VPL" (Villa Planeix) and "VCO" (Villa Cook) respectively; 332
is misidentified as "Villa Planex" [sic] on verso. ML 320-325 are possibly interior details of Maison Jeanneret.
Box 2
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
ML 63: An interior view of the dining room in Maison Jeanneret.
Maisons Lipchitz et Miestchaninoff (1923-1924)
Scope and Contents
Images of a compound consisting of two houses and accompanying artist studios and workshops, Boulogne-sur-Seine (Boulogne-Billancourt),
France.
Box 3
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
22 items
6 x 8 cm., 5 x 7 in., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
LM 1-25 [including 19A]: Exterior and interior views, including views of the garden. LM 3-4, 12, 18-19 and 20-25 are accompanied
by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Box 3
Color slides
Physical Description:
52 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
LM 30-76: Exterior and interior views. Includes exterior views of adjoining Canale House (not designed by Le Corbusier), views
of and from the roof terrace, and views of the garden. One slide is unmounted.
Box 3
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
4 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
LM 22-25: Exterior views.
Box 3
Maisons en série pour artisans (1924)
Physical Description:
1 item
black-and-white negative
88 x 119 mm.
Scope and Contents
MA 1: An image of page 54 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1.
Box 3
Cité Lège, ten houses for Henry Frugès (1924)
Physical Description:
2 items
black-and-white negatives
90 x 112 mm., 97 x 114 mm.
Scope and Contents
LF 1-2: Exterior views of the buildings under construction, with one showing the canteen, Lège-Cap-Ferret, France. Title taken
from the catalog for the exhibition
Le Corbusier: Architect of the Century, Hayward Gallery, London, 1987.
Petite villa au bord du lac Léman (1925)
Box 3
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
26 items
4 x 5 in., 6 x 8 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VL 1-24 [including 14A, 24A]: Exterior and interior views, an image of two photographs of the villa pinned to display board,
and an image of page 67 from
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960. VL 21 depicts a man, possibly Albert Jeanneret, standing on the terrace. VL 1, 4 and 14A accompanied by original annotated
glassine envelopes.
Original negative numbers:
VL 3-4: 242 and 492 (two copies of the same negative).
Box 4
Color slides
Physical Description:
82 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VL 29-111: Interior views and images of the roof terrace.
Box 3
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
4 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VL 25-28: Exterior views.
Box 4
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
92 items
6 x 9 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
PE 1-91, 112: Exterior views of the buildings, and one interior view of the living room. Many negatives are numbered in marker
and accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Box 4
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
20 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
PE 92-111: Exterior views of buildings and images of page 78 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1.
Box 4
Color slides
Physical Description:
13 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
PE 113-125: Exterior views of buildings.
Box 4
Villa Meyer, Paris (1925)
Physical Description:
4 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 86 x 111 mm., 99 x 123 mm.
Scope and Contents
MY 1-4: Images of drawings, including axonometric drawings and reproductions from pages 88 and 90 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1.
Petite maison d'artistes à Boulogne (Maison Ternisien) (1925-1927)
Box 4
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
4 items
5 x 7 in., 92 x 120 mm., 6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
MT 2-5: Four copies of the same image of the garden and studio.
Original negative numbers:
MT 4-5: 89 and 612 (612 is crossed out; two copies of same negative).
Box 4
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
MT 1: An image of the garden and studio (a copy of MT 2-5).
Pavillon de l'Esprit-Nouveau, Paris (1925)
Box 4
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
40 items
4 x 5 in., 5 x 7 in., 6 x 9 cm
Scope and Contents
EN 1, 3-40 [including EN 11A]: Exterior and interior views, a view of the "jardins-suspendus," images of pages of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1 pinned to a display board, and images of photographs of the pavilion pinned to a display board (some showing the "Plan Voisin
de Paris" display). EN 6, 12-14, 16, 19 and 31 are accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Original negative numbers:
EN 14: 508;
EN 15: 39;
EN 17-18: 61 and 515 (two copies of same negative);
EN 19: 12;
EN 20: 20;
EN 25: 21 and 522.
Box 4
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 4.5 cm.
Scope and Contents
EN 2: An image showing several pages from
Œuvre complète, Volume 1, and images of photographs of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1 pinned to a display board.
Le "Plan Voisin" de Paris (1925)
Box 4
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
27 items
8 x 10 in., 5 x 7 in., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
PV 1-24, 26, 29-30: Images of models, and pages from
Œuvre complète, Volume 1, and one image of page 63 from
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 4
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
6 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
PV 25, 27-28: Images of models, and an image of an illustration from page 117 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1.
Box 4
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
3 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
PV 31-33: Images of models.
Box 4
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
38 items
5 x 7 in., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 6 cm
Scope and Contents
VC 1-28, 30-39: Exterior and interior views, a view of the roof terrace, images of photographs of the building clipped to
display boards, and an image of cross-sectional drawings on page 133 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 2. VC 7, 38 and 39 accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Original negative numbers:
VC 11-13: 238 (three copies of same negative);
VC 14: 26 and 666;
VC 16: 654 (last number partly cut off on trimmed edge);
VC 21: 93;
VC 31: 94 and 663 (numbers partly cut off on trimmed edge);
VC 33-36: 664 (four copies of same negative).
Box 4
Color slides
Physical Description:
7 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VC 43-49: Exterior views from the garden and the street.
Box 4
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
4 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VC 29, 40-42: Interior views. VC 41 accompanied by an original annotated glassine envelope.
Maison Guiette à Anvers (1926)
Box 4
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
7 items
6 x 8 cm., 6 x 6 cm., 64 x 83 mm.
Scope and Contents
MG 1-7: Exterior and interior views, one image of page 138 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1, and one image of a photographic print pinned to a display board.
Box 4
Color slides
Physical Description:
24 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
MG 8-31: Exterior views, and one interior view (MG 31).
Villa à Garches (Villa Stein-de Monzie) (1927-1928)
Scope and Contents
Many of the black-and-white negatives for this project are copies of images originally produced by Charles Gérard, 1927-1928.
Box 5
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
49 items
4 x 5 in., 5 x 7 in., 6 x 6 cm., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
VG 1-48, 61-63: Exterior and interior views, images of plans, one image of pages 142-144 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1, and an image of an axonometric drawing of the villa. VG 14 and 36 are accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Note: VG 48 was originally filed with these photographs, but is difficult to identify and may belong elsewhere.
Original negative numbers:
VG 7: 128;
VG 10: 129 (number difficult to read);
VG 11: 125 (number partly cut off on trimmed edge);
VG 15: 126;
VG 16: 156 (number partly cut off on trimmed edge);
VG 17-18: 157 (two copies of same negative);
VG 20-21: 153 (two copies of same negative);
VG 24: 158;
VG 31: 144;
VG 32: 145;
VG 34-35: 163 (two copies of same negative);
VG 36-37: 137 (two copies of same negative);
VG 42: 133.
Box 5
Color slides
Physical Description:
41 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VG 66-106: Exterior views, including views of the first floor covered terrace and the roof garden.
Box 5
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
14 items
5 x 7 in., 6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VG 49-63: Exterior views, including views of the first floor covered terrace and the roof garden.
Box 5
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
2 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VG 64, 65: Exterior views.
La Colonie "Weissenhof" à Stuttgart (1927)
Box 5
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
24 items
4 x 5 in., 35 mm., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
WS 3-24 [including WS 2A and WS 2B]: Exterior views, including views of the Oud houses and the postwar house built to replace
the demolished Gropius house.
Original negative numbers:
WS 2A: 173.
Box 5
Color slides
Physical Description:
31 items
35mm
Scope and Contents
WS 25-55: Exterior views, including a view of one building with scaffolding erected against it.
Box 5
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
2 items
3.5 x 4.5 in.
Scope and Contents
WS 1-2: Exterior views.
Maison Planeix à Paris (1927-1928)
Scope and Contents
The title of this project was misspelled as "Plainex" in the original edition of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1.
Box 5
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
70 items
35 mm., 6 x 8 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
MP 1-70: Exterior and interior views. MP 39-40 are frames which overlap on the film strip, with a consequent partial double
exposure.
Box 5
Color slides
Physical Description:
79 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
MP 71-149: Exterior and interior views, and details of the exterior staircase to garden. Thirteen of the slides are unmounted.
Palais pour la Société des Nations (1927-1928)
Box 5
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
17 items
5 x 7 in., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 8 cm., 8 x 10 in.
Scope and Contents
SN 1-5, 9-16, 18-21: Images of illustrations from
Œuvre complète, Volume 1 and
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960, and images of other plans and drawings. SN 10 is an original drawing reproduced on page 162 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1. SN 11-15 are accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Box 5
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
4 items
6 x 7 cm., 7 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
SN 6-8, 17: SN 8 is an image of an original drawing reproduced on page 162 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1, and SN 17 is a image of plans.
Box 6
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
10 items
8 x 10 in., 5 x 7 in., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
PN 1-10: Exterior views. These are copies of the images published on page 174 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1.
Original negative numbers: PN 1: 85.
Box 6
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
PN 11: Exterior view of the front façade of the building. This image was published on page 174 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1.
Box 6
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
11 items
4 x 5 in., 6 x 11 cm., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
VE 1-11: Exterior views of the finished building and images of drawings. VE 11 is accompanied by an original annotated glassine
envelope.
Box 6
Color slides
Physical Description:
9 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VE 12-20: Images of sheets of drawings taped to a wall.
Ville d'Avray (Villa Church) (1928-1929)
Box 6
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
23 items
4 x 5 in., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VA 1-19, 21-24: Exterior views of the pavilion (views of roof terrace and garden), interior views (views of the ground floor
entrance hall, the living room, the "grande salle," and the library), an exterior view of the annex, and an interior view
of the dining room in the annex. Also includes an image of a photographic print of VA 19 pinned to a display board.
Original negative numbers:
VA 1: 278;
VA 3-4: 271 (two copies of same negative);
VA 6: 28- (number partly cut off on trimmed edge);
VA 12: 272 (third digit difficult to read);
VA 13: 274;
VA 15: 275;
VA 16: 277;
VA 18: 279.
Box 6
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VA 20: An interior view of the dining room in the Annex.
Original negative number: 280.
Palais du Centrosoyus à Moscou (1928-1935)
Scope and Contents
Images of a government building in Moscow, Russia, also known as the Tsentrosoyuz Building, or Centrosoyuz Building.
Box 6
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
65 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
PC 1, 3-64 [including 2B-2C]: Exterior and interior views, a view of the building under construction, images of drawings ("le
hall principal et les vestiaires") and an architectural model, and images of photographic prints of the model shown in PC
3 mounted on display boards. PC 3-4 are accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes. PC 63-64 are medium format negatives
with original paper folders accompanied by contact prints.
Box 6
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
2 items
6.5 x 7.5 cm.
Scope and Contents
PC 2-2A: Images of drawings of the main hall and cloakrooms.
Box 6
Maisons Loucheur (1929)
Physical Description:
2 items
black-and-white negatives
72 x 118 mm., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
LO 1-2: An image of page 86 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960, and an image of the original drawing reproduced on that page.
Études d'urbanisation en Amérique du Sud (Rio de Janeiro Montevideo São Paulo) (1929)
Box 6
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
7 items
35 mm., 5 x 7 in., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
UR 1-3, 6-7, 9-10: Images of several drawings reproduced on page 138 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 2, and an image of page 295 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 6
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
3 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UR 4-5, 8: Images of several drawings reproduced on page 138 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 2.
Villa Savoye à Poissy (1929-1931)
Scope and Contents
Many of the black-and-white negatives for this project are copies of images originally produced by Marius Gravot in 1930.
Box 6
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
336 items
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 8 x 10 in., 4 x 5 in., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
VS 1-6, 9-326 [including 9A-9D, 11A, 133A, 172A-172D, 209A, 326A]: Exterior views, including views of the villa from various
directions, views of the vehicular arrival and departure driveway behind the pilotis, and views of the gardener's lodge. Interior
views, including views of entrance hall, ramp, first floor landing, salon, kitchen, living room, linen room, Madame Savoye's
bathroom, spiral staircase, first floor terrace and roof terrace. Also includes unidentified details, images of plans and
drawings, images of photographic prints of the villa pinned to display boards, and an image of page 189 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1. VS 88-209 depict restoration work in progress on the villa, circa 1960. 326A is misidentified on the paper envelope as Villa
Cook. VS 119, 167, 184-185 and 352 are accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Original negative numbers:
VS 15: 1052;
VS: 1013;
VS 23: 1018;
VS 30-31: 1000 (two copies of same negaive);
VS 32-33: 1005 (two copies of same negative);
VS 34: 1013 (different photograph from VS 22 above);
VS 45: 1056;
VS 48: 1001;
VS 49: 1003;
VS 58: 1010;
VS 73: 1011;
VS 75: 1016;
VS 77: 1002;
VS 172: 1009.
Box 6
Color negatives
Physical Description:
5 items
4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
VS 352-356: Exterior views of house from various directions, views of the vehicular arrival and departure driveway behind
the pilotis. Interior views of the entrance hall, ramp, first floor landing, kitchen, living room, first floor terrace, and
the roof terrace.
Box 7
Color slides
Physical Description:
192 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VS 357-548: Exterior views of the progress of restoration work on villa, the house from various directions, the roof terrace,
the gardener's lodge, and details of the north-east façade of the ground floor. Interior views of the entrance hall, ramp
from entrance hall to first floor landing, first floor landing, kitchen, Madame Savoye's bathroom, living room, and the first
floor terrace.
Box 6
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
27 items
5 x 6 cm., 6 x 7 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
VS 7-8, 327-351: Images of plans and drawings.
Box 7
Asile flottant de l'Armée du Salut (1929)
Physical Description:
2 items
color slides
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
AF 1-2.
La Cité de Refuge (Armée du Salut) à Paris (1929-1933)
Box 7
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
154 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
AS 1-150 [including 3A, 26A, 26B, 111A, 145A]: Exterior views, including distant views of the building, views of the entrance,
the vehicular access route, library courtyard, south façade, and views of the pilotis under the building. Interior views
of the dormitories (individual rooms), library, restaurant, kitchen, solarium of the nursery, a room with service piping and
machinery, a view out from the interior during construction work, and a view of a window-cleaning rig. Details of an unidentified
church, of the entrance pavilion, façades, and windows. Also includes an image of a model. AS 35-119 is sequence of negatives
originally housed in glassine envelopes numbered from AS-1 to AS-167 by Hervé [numbers are not continuous, and AS-70 is repeated].
The glassine envelopes have been discarded, and the original numbers have been transcribed onto the paper tags bearing the
GRI's identification numbers. Each original number is placed in square brackets after the corresponding GRI number.
Original negative numbers:
AS 144: 2115;
AS 145A: 2116.
Box 7
Color slides
Physical Description:
26 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
AS 151-176: Exterior views of the building and an image of a grouping of furniture.
Box 8
Les éléments du Mundaneum (Cité Mondiale) (1929)
Physical Description:
7 items
black-and-white negatives
8 x 10 in., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
MU 1-7: Images of plans and drawings, and an image of a diorama shown on page 214 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 1. MU 6 is accompanied by an original annotated glassine sleeve.
Box 8
Salon d'automne (1929)
Physical Description:
6 items
black-and-white negatives
4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
SA 1-6: Interior views of the rooms, and an image of the frame of a chaise-longue.
Box 8
Maison de M. Errazuris au Chili (1930)
Physical Description:
2 items
black-and-white negatives
4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
ME 1-2: Images of pages 49 and 50 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 2.
Box 8
Appartement de M. Charles de Beistegui aux Champs-Élysées à Paris (1930-1931)
Physical Description:
17 items
85 x 117 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
AB 1-17: Exterior views of a series of roof terraces and the steps between them, and interior views of the library and of
a room with a spiral staircase.
Original negative numbers:
AB 1: 2036;
AB 7: 2021;
AB 9: 2023.
Villa de Madame H. de Mandrot, Le Pradet (1930-1931)
Scope and Contents
Images of a private residence in Le Pradet, France.
Box 8
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
36 items
6 x 6 cm., 5 x 7 in., 85 x 170 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
VM 1-4, 7-37 [including 7A]: Exterior views of a path from the north entrance, and views of the building from the north and
south. Interior views of the kitchen and bathroom, and details of the north side of building. Also includes an image of ruined
buildings (VM 30) that was originally filed within the Villa Mandrot sequence. VM 1 is accompanied by an original annotated
glassine envelope, and VM 2 is medium format negative accompanied by an original paper folder and a contact print. VM 30 is
accompanied by an original glassine sleeve labeled "VMA," Hervé's abbreviation for Villa Mandrot.
Box 8
Color slides
Physical Description:
3 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VM 38-40: Interior details of the artist's studio in the basement.
Box 8
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
2 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VM 5-6: Exterior views of the building from the south.
Immeuble "Clarté" à Genève (1930-1932)
Box 8
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
33 items
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 6 x 8 cm. 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
IC 1-33: Exterior views of the construction work in progress, views and details of both the north-east and south-west façades,
an image of a balcony, and interior views. IC 3 is accompanied by an original annotated glassine sleeve, and IC 31-33 are
medium format negatives accompanied by original paper folders and contact prints.
Box 8
Color slides
Physical Description:
83 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
IC 34-116: Exterior views of the building from the north and north-west, views and details of the façades, and interior views
of the entrance, stairwells, and apartments.
Pavillon Suisse à la Cité universitaire à Paris (1930-1932)
Box 8
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
290 items
6 x 6 cm., 8 x 10 in., 4 x 5 in., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
PS 1-290: Exterior views of the building under construction, views of the building from various directions, views and details
of the north and south façades, views and details of the staircase tower, views of the east façade of the concierge's apartment
and Director's office, and views of the pilotis under the building. Interior views of the entrance hall, staircase tower,
students' rooms, "salon Courbe" (the building's refectory, or common room) from the entrance hall, fourth floor rooms, and
the terrace. Also includes views of Le Corbusier's 1948 mural in the "salon Courbe," views of occupants looking out of windows,
images of pages 75 and 79 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 2, and an image of the original drawing reproduced on page 75. PS 41-42 are accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
Box 9
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
114 items
6 x 6 cm., 8 x 10 in., 4 x 5 in., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
PS 291-404: Exterior views of the building from various directions, miscellaneous views and details of the south façade, and
views of the pilotis under building. Interior views of the entrance hall, student's rooms, "salon Courbe," and Le Corbusier's
mural in "salon Courbe." Also includes images of photographic prints of the mural pinned to display boards, as well as miscellaneous
drawings and paintings that are presumed to be studies for the mural. There is no PS 398; the photograph originally placed
there was misidentified, and has been refiled. PS 399-404 are medium format negatives accompanied by original paper folders
and contact prints, and the contact prints are marked with cropping lines.
Original negative numbers:
PS 291: 2040;
PS 311: 2050;
PS 321: 2057;
PS 322: 2070;
PS 325: 2059;
PS 336: 2061.
Box 9
Color slides
Physical Description:
168 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
PS 409-576: Exterior views of the building from various directions, views of the pilotis under the building, and views and
details of the south façade. Interior views of the entrance, hallway, elevator enclosure, staircases, students' rooms, entrance
pavilion, the staircase tower on north side of building, and of Le Corbusier's mural and decorated banquettes in "salon Courbe."
Details of the east and west ends of the entrance pavilion. There is no PS 454; the negative originally placed there was misidentified,
and has been refiled.
Box 9
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
4 items
5 x 7 in., 6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
PS 405-408: PS 405 is an image of Le Corbusier's mural in the "salon Courbe."
Box 9
Palais des Soviets à Moscou (1931)
Physical Description:
37 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 8 x 10 in.
Scope and Contents
SM 1-36 [including 23A]: Images of a model of the project, and of the building under construction (one featuring Le Corbusier).
Also includes views of photographic prints clipped to display boards, and an image of part of page 104 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Original negative numbers:
SM 24: 204.
Urbanisation de la ville d'Alger (1931-1942)
Box 9
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
80 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 35 mm., 4.5 x 11.5 cm.
Scope and Contents
UV 1-29, 32-34, 43-83 [including 3A, 27A, 48A, 63A, 69A-69D]: Images of drawings, plans, and models for Project A, "Domaine
Durand," the "grands immeubles," the "petites maisons," the "maison locative" for Algiers, and the "Quartier de la Marine"
for Algiers, and images of drawings for Project B. Also includes images of pages from
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 9
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
11 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UV 30-31, 35-42 [including 40A]: Images of models for Projet A.
Immeuble locatif à la Porte-Molitor à Paris (rue Nungesser-et-Coli) (1932-1934)
Box 10
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
602 items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 4 x 5 in., 8 x 10 in.
Scope and Contents
NC 1-579 [including 162A-162B, 223A, 567A]: Exterior views and details of the building under construction/restoration, of
the rue Nungesser-et-Coli façade, the rue de la Tourelle façade and central light court. Interior views and details of the
ground floor entrance, hall, and apartments (not Le Corbusier's own), and one view of an interior that also includes the sports
stadium in Parc des Princes outside the window. Interior views and details of Le Corbusier's own apartment (on seventh floor
of the building), including the kitchen, living room and dining room, bedrooms, and studio. Also includes images of copies
of plans and cross-sectional drawings of Le Corbusier's apartment clipped to display boards. Le Corbusier is present in NC
110, 111 and 133.
Box 10
Color slides
Physical Description:
77 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
NC 580-652 [including 652A]: Interior views of Le Corbusier's apartment, including the dining room, studio, the balcony on
the Rue de la Tourelle side of apartment, the curved staircase to roof terrace and garden, exterior views of the vestibule,
and views from roof terrace down into building's light court. Many of the views include Le Corbusier's artworks, and one shows
Le Corbusier's "Grand Confort" chair sitting in the apartment.
Box 10
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
2 items
4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
NC 84, 84A: Interior views of Le Corbusier's apartment on rue Nungesser-et-Coli.
Urbanisation d'Anvers (1933)
Box 11
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
7 items
5 x 7 in., 6 x 7 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UA 1-3, 7-10: Images of drawing reproduced on page 158 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 2, and one image of page 114 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 11
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
5 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
UA 4-6: Images of the original plans and drawings reproduced in
Œuvre complète, Volume 2.
Box 11
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
2 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UA 11, 12: Images of drawings reproduced in
Œuvre complète, Volume 2.
Projet pour le bâtiment de la "Rentenanstalt" à Zürich (1933)
Box 11
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
6 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 60 x 75 mm.
Scope and Contents
RZ 1-6, 9-10: Images of a model and of drawings of La Salle de l'Assemblé Générale reproduced on page 185 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 2. RZ 10 appears to demonstrate how the finished building will appear in the proposed setting.
Box 11
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
2 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
RZ 7-8: Images of drawings of La Salle de l'Assemblé Générale, reproduced on page 185 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 2.
Box 11
Lotissement destiné à la main-d'oeuvre auxiliaire, Barcelone (1933)
Physical Description:
1 item
black-and-white negative
67 x 89 mm.
Scope and Contents
BL 1: An image of page 110 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Urbanisation de la ville de Nemours (1934)
Box 11
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
8 items
4 x 5 in., 6 x 6 cm., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
NE 1-4, 6-9: Images of models, a plan, and one image of page 115 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 11
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
NE 5: An image of a model.
La Ferme et le village coopératif - réorganisation agraire (1934-1938)
Box 11
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
30 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 7 cm., 3 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
RA 1-5, 7-29, 32-33: Images of drawings and models.
Box 11
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
3 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
RA 6, 30-31: Images of models and one drawing.
Box 11
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
87 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 8 x 10 in., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VR 1-4, 8-24, 28-39, 42-44, 46-85, 89-99: Images of various plans and drawings, and one image of a model.
Box 11
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
12 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VR 5-7, 40-41, 45, 86-88: Images of various plans, drawings, and models, and of a drawing reproduced on page 146 of
Oeuvre complète, Volume 3, where it is identified as part of project dating from 1937. Also includes images of montages of architectural drawings and
of human figures.
Box 11
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
3 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
VR 25-27: Images of drawings.
Box 11
Urbanisation d'Hellocourt (1935)
Physical Description:
1 item
black-and-white negative
8 x 11 cm.
Scope and Contents
UH 1: An image of an illustration on page 49 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 3.
Box 11
Le gratte-ciel cartésien (1935)
Physical Description:
2 items
black-and-white negatives
97 x 128 mm., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
GC 1-2: An image of a model and of page 126 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 11
Une maison de week-end en banlieue de Paris (1935)
Physical Description:
3 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
MW 1-3: Images from the pages of
Œuvre complète, Volume 3.
Box 11
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
3 items
4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
MM 1-3: Images of drawings (including a plan and an elevation) from page 137 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 3, and one image of the exterior staircase to the first floor gallery.
Box 11
Color slides
Physical Description:
13 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
MM 4-16: Exterior views, including the side of the building facing the ocean, the side facing the woods at ground floor level,
and views of the gallery outside the bedrooms on the first floor.
Box 11
Plans pour les musées de la Ville et de l'État à Paris (1935)
Physical Description:
2 items
black-and-white negatives
85 x 114 mm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
VP 1-2: An image of a drawing and a photographic print clipped to a display board.
Box 11
Rio de Janeiro: Plan pour la Cité Universitaire du Brésil (1936)
Physical Description:
4 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm., 8 x 11 cm., 60 x 103 mm.
Scope and Contents
CU 1-4: Images of drawings from pages of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Le Ministère de l'éducation et de la santé publique à Rio de Janeiro (1936-1945)
Box 11
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
60 items
6 x 9 cm., 6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
RJ 1-59 [including 1A]: Exterior views of the building, images of unidentified drawings, photographic prints clipped to display
boards, images of pages from
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960, and one image of a drawing that was reproduced on page 81 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Box 11
Color slide
Physical Description:
1 item
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
RJ 60: An exterior view of the building.
Box 11
Un centre de réjouissance de 100,000 participants (1936)
Physical Description:
19 items
black-and-white negatives
4 x 5 in., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
CR 1-19: Images of drawings and models, of two cross-sectional drawings of the stadium, and of a plan for a stadium in Bois
de Vincennes, reproduced on page 96 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Le Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux (1937)
Box 11
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
51 items
4 x 5 in., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
TN 1-51: Exterior views, views of the pavilion under construction, and views showing various details of the graphic displays.
TN 1 is a drawing of "Projet C" for the 1937 Paris Exposition Internationale (the pavilion itself is "Projet D"), reproduced
on page 153 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 3 and captioned "Un centre d'esthétique contemporaine."
Box 11
Color slides
Physical Description:
5 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
TN 52-56: Possibly images of hand-colored copies of photographs on pages 153 and 163 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 3.
Box 11
Monument à la mémoire de Vaillant-Couturier (1937)
Physical Description:
3 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm., 86 x 122 mm., 34 x 69 mm.
Scope and Contents
MV 1-3: Images of drawings reproduced on pages 10 and 11 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4, and an image of page 135 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 11
La Cité d'affaires d'Alger (Le gratte ciel de la Marine) (1938)
Physical Description:
7 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
CA 1-7: Images of a model.
Box 11
Musée à croissance illimitée (1939)
Physical Description:
40 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
CI 1-41: Images of a model, of photographic prints pinned to display boards, of page 101 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960, and of page 152 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 3.
Box 11
M.A.S., maisons montées à sec (1939-1940)
Physical Description:
7 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
MS 1-7: Images of both original drawings, and reproductions on pages 38 and 39 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Box 11
Maisons pour ingénieurs et contremaîtres, S.P.A., Lannemezan (1940)
Physical Description:
6 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
SL 1-6: Images of drawings and pages from
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Box 11
Les maisons "Murondin" (1940)
Physical Description:
4 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm., 40 x 95 mm., 51 x 115 mm.
Scope and Contents
MU 1-4: Images of pages from
Œuvre complète, Volume 4, and of page 142 of
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 11
Écoles volantes pour les réfugiés de la première partie de la guerre (1940)
Physical Description:
2 items
black-and-white negatives
5 x 11 cm.
Scope and Contents
EV 1-2: Images of pages 100 to 103 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Box 11
La cité linéaire industrielle (1942)
Physical Description:
4 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
CL 1-4: Four copies of the same image of the "troisième schéma," reproduced on page 73 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Box 11
L'Usine-Verte (1944)
Physical Description:
2 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
UV 1-2: Images of drawings reproduced on page 78 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Box 11
Unité d'Habitation transitoire (1944)
Physical Description:
5 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
LP 1-5: Images of drawings and illustrations from the pages of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Urbanisation de Saint-Dié (1945)
Box 12
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
8 items
7 x 8 cm., 35 mm., 163 x 100 mm.
Scope and Contents
US 1-8: Images of original drawings and plans, and of pages of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4 and
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 12
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
4 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
US 9-12: Images of drawings reproduced on page 134 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Box 12
Urbanisation de Saint-Gaudens (1945-1946)
Physical Description:
2 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
SG 1-2: Images of illustrations on pages 162 and 163 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Urbanisation de La Rochelle-Pallice (1945-1946)
Box 12
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
4 items
6 x 7cm., 170 x 208 mm.
Scope and Contents
LR 1-3, 5: Images of drawings and one plan reproduced in
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Box 12
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
LR 4: Image of a drawing reproduced on page 166 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4.
Une Manufacture à Saint-Dié (1946-1951)
Box 12
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
329 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
SD 1-329 [including 176A]: Exterior views, including general views of the factory and its environs, various views and details
of the north-west façade (including the "bloc des circulations verticales"), views and details of the south-east façade, details
of the brise-soleil, views and details of space beneath building at ground level (including benches, bicycle racks, and the
air conditioning extractor), and views and details of roof terrace. Interior views of the factory working spaces, boiler room,
staircases, corridors, kitchen, locker room, and the waiting rooms and offices on the fourth floor.
Box 12
Color slides
Physical Description:
21 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
SD 330-350.
L'Unité d'habitation à Marseille (1946-1952)
Scope and Contents
These negatives were received divided into 15 subject groupings, an arrangement that has been preserved. The titles of these
groups were transcribed from hand-written labels on Hervé's original binders.
Box 12
UM
Physical Description:
71 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
UM 1-71: Images of Le Corbusier on site during construction (UM 2 shows Le Corbusier amidst a large crowd by the gymnasium
on the roof-terrace, and UM 3 shows him by one of the Modulor panels), and of the film crew at work in various locations in
and around the building making the film
La cité radieuse. UM 5 is accompanied by an original annotated glassine envelope.
See also UMo 100, 182-183 and 211-212 below - they are also images of the film crew making
La cité radieuse.
Box 12
UMa: Maquette
Physical Description:
55 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
UMa 1-55: Images of various original models, drawings, plans reproduced in
Œuvre complète, Volume 4 and
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 12
UMb: Construction
Physical Description:
210 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMb 1-210: Views showing the exterior and interior of the building, the gymnasium, day nursery, different façades, and the
roof terrace and its structures (including the "brise-vent," or "théâtre") at different stages of construction. Also includes
details of foundations and views of the Modulor panels on the façade of the elevator tower.
Box 13
UMc: 1949
Physical Description:
235 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
UMc 1-235: The original sheets containing these negatives were labeled 1949, but this material includes images of the construction
work in progress and there is considerable overlap with UMb. It includes exterior and interior views, details of the construction
work in progress, views of the building's structure at ground level, the façade of elevator tower, the roof terrace and its
structures, finished and furnished apartments, and various graffiti on the walls of the building. UMc 118 appears to show
Unité, in the course of construction, through the windows of an adjacent building.
Box 13
UMd: Béton
Physical Description:
32 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMd 1-32: Views of the construction work in progress, miscellaneous structural details, textural details of concrete surfaces,
and a perspective view along the east façade of building.
Box 13
UMe: Pilotis
Physical Description:
108 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMe 1-108: Exterior views showing the arrangement of the pilotis, and views underneath the building that show service piping
and machinery.
Box 13
UMf: Modulor
Physical Description:
49 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
UMf 1-49: Views and details of Modulor panels, a workman cutting a pattern on the small block that stands near the elevator
tower, the sculpture of Modulor "Man" and "Spiral" in an outdoor setting, photographs of panels clipped to display boards,
photographs of actual-size drawings of panels clipped to display boards, and photographs of a promotional display in a bookshop
of Le Corbusier's book Le Modulor and related materials. UMf 1 shows Le Corbusier by a Modulor panel (probably taken on same
occasion as UM 3).
Box 13
UMg: Sol
Physical Description:
58 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMg 1-58: Views and details of the building's immediate surroundings and its ground-level structure, views down from high
vantage-points on the building, various views and details of main entrance (UMg 20-21 show views down onto the porch roof),
a general view of the west side of the building, and details of the paving near the entrance. Also includes views of the household
waste collection building.
Box 13
UMh: Tabliers
Physical Description:
48 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
UMh 1-48: Views and details of building's immediate surroundings, the ground level structure and "sol artificiel," and views
and details of the main entrance.
Box 13
UMi: Façades
Physical Description:
371 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMi 1-372: Views and details of the north, south, east, and west façades, including many views that show the construction
in progress, with cladding incomplete on the upper stories.
Box 14
UMj: Entrée - Salle
Physical Description:
79 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMj 1-79: Views and details of both the interior and exterior of the main entrance on the west side of building, interior
views of the public hallways and passages in building, and details of the sculptural light fixtures. Also includes views of
the counter inside the entrance hall selling magazines and postcards.
Box 14
UMk: Escaliers
Physical Description:
135 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMk 1-135: Various views and details of staircases, including the emergency staircases at the north and west ends of the building,
various flights of stairs on the roof terrace, and the steps of the "brise-vent" or "théâtre." Also includes views of the
household waste collection building and views looking down onto a staircase from the roof.
Box 14
UMl: Toit
Physical Description:
499 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
UMl 1-499: Views of the roof terrace (including the stairs, ramps, ventilation chimney, the "théâtre" structure at the north
end of the terrace, and the "montagnes artificielles"), exterior and interior views and details of the day nursery building
(some may be images of the infants' school on seventeenth floor), the entrance ramp, children's pool, and "solarium" seating
to the west side. Interior views of the gymnasium, the day nursery, and the shops on the seventh floor. Also includes details
of an electrical switchgear and control panels (possibly in elevator tower), and an image of racks of numbered keys.
Box 14
UMm: Environs de la ville
Physical Description:
192 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMm 1-193: Views of landscapes and townscapes with distant views of the building, views of the façades, driveways, planted
areas around building, and lighting fixtures along the exterior walkways and driveways. Some views show the construction work
in progress. Also includes views of the household waste collection building.
Box 15
UMn: Cellules
Physical Description:
315 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
UMn 1-315 [including 257A-257B]: Interior views of the building, primarily of the apartments. Includes views of the apartment
entrances with their "casiers de livraison," bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, and balconies. Also includes interior
views of the hotel restaurant, elevator doors and lobbies, various passages, hallways, stairs, and other communal areas of
building, and views of the service piping and machinery in the space under building. UMn 315 is an image of a drawing and
a plan pinned to a display board.
Box 15
UMo: Habitants
Physical Description:
255 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
UMo 1-254 [including 127A]: Views of various residents and employees interacting with the completed building. Also includes
some images of the construction work in progress.
Box 15
UMp: Negatives with contact prints
Physical Description:
42 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMp 1-42: Negatives accompanied by original paper folders and contact prints. Many of the prints are marked with cropping
lines in red crayon.
Box 15
UMq
Physical Description:
194 items
color negatives
35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
UMq 1-193 [including 91A]: Exterior views of the building from various directions, views of the pilotis, views of the roof
(including views of children playing in and around the pool), and interior views of the apartments, hotel restaurant, and
the elevator lobbies.
Box 16
UMr 1-112, 113-228, 236-299
Physical Description:
271 items
color slides
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Exterior and interior views, including details of the east and south façades.
Box 16
UMr 113-130, 229-235
Physical Description:
23 items
color transparencies
6 x 6 cm., 127 x 177 mm.
Scope and Contents
UMr 1-299: Exterior views of the building from various directions, views of the pilotis under building, views of and from
the apartment balconies, and views from the roof. Interior views of various apartments, the entrance hall, gymnasium, passageways,
elevator lobbies, the infants' school on the seventeenth floor, and the hotel restaurant balcony seating.
Box 17
UMr 300-536, 552-565
Physical Description:
249 items
color slides
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Exterior and interior views, including images of construction work in progress, and children playing by the pool and in the
day-nursery of the roof terrace.
Box 17
UMr 537-551
Physical Description:
15 items
color transparencies
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
UMr 300-565: [Conclusion of the sequence of positive color transparencies described in the entry for Box 16 above.] Exterior
and interior views of the building. Includes views of the gymnasium, day nursery and pool, the "solarium" seating to west
of day nursery, the "brise-soleil" panels, "brises-vent" walls, "théâtre" structure, and "montagnes artificiellles."
Note: UMr 553 is one of a sequence of numbered slides filed as UMr 71-99 above; it is an interior view of an apartment.
Box 17
UMs: Miscellaneous
Physical Description:
14 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 8 x 10 in.
Scope and Contents
UMs 1-14: Includes exterior views of the building from the east, north, and north-west, views of the main entrance porch,
pool, roof terrace structures, and the solarium seating by the day-nursery on the roof terrace, and views of the service piping
and machinery in the space under the building. Also includes an image of a drawing of the building in one of Le Corbusier's
sketchbooks (UMs 10).
Note: These negatives were originally misidentified and misplaced elsewhere in the archive.
Box 36
Sketches
Physical Description:
13 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
Images of sketches for L'Unité d'habitation à Marseille, and one unidentified image containing reference to the
Société d'entreprises industrielles et d'études. No letter code assigned.
Palais des Nations Unies à New York (1947)
Box 18
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
16 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
UN 1-12, 14-16: Images of drawings, of model "23A," and of pages from
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
Box 18
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
UN 13: An image of model "23A."
Box 18
La Basilique de la Paix et du Pardon (La Sainte-Baume) (1948)
Physical Description:
15 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
SB 1-15: Images of original drawings. These drawings were reproduced on pages 30, 31 and 35 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 5.
Le plan d'urbanisation de Bogotá, Colombie (1950)
Box 18
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
80 items
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
UB 1-80: Images of a model of the "Centre civique," and of pages from Le Corbusier's sketchbooks. UB 68 is a photograph of
the cover of the sketchbook.
Box 18
Color slides
Physical Description:
2 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
UB 81-82: Images of a model of the "Centre civique."
Box 18
Roq et "Rob" à Cap-Martin (Méditerranée) (1949)
Physical Description:
7 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 9 cm., 54 x 80 mm., 84 x 93 mm.
Scope and Contents
RR 1-7: Images of models, a drawing, and page 61 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 5.
La Chapelle de Ronchamp (Notre-Dame-du-Haut) (1950-1954)
Scope and Contents
These negatives were received divided into ten groups, an arrangement that has been preserved. ERk contains images from almost
all of these groupings, but they are presumed to have been collected together because of their format.
Box 18
ERa
Physical Description:
91 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
ERa 1-92 [including 10A]: Images of drawings, models and pages from
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960,
Œuvre complète, Volume 5, and
Œuvre complète, Volume 6. The photographs of the plaster model were taken in the studio and on the roof of Le Corbusier's apartment on rue Nungesser-et-Coli.
Box 18
ERb
Physical Description:
205 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
ERb 1-205: Exterior and interior views of the chapel under construction. Includes views of the statues of angels and carved
masonry blocks (believed to be from the destroyed 19th century church), and views of the pilgrims' hostel.
Box 18
ERc
Physical Description:
157 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 9 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
ERc 1-153 [including 66A-66D]: Distant views of the chapel. Includes views of the chapel on its hill, as seen across country,
some showing buildings and electricity grid pylons in the foreground, views of the chapel as seen from the streets of Ronchamp,
and views of the railway lines and adjacent buildings in Ronchamp. Also includes views of the cemetery.
Box 19
ERd
Physical Description:
194 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
ERd 1-192 [including 78A and 139A]: Exterior views of the chapel from the south. Includes views of the façades, views up towards
the roof above the entrance, views of the junctions of the south and east walls and roof at the south-east corner of building,
and a view of chairs and tables set out in front of the west façade of the chapel. See ERf 1 below.
Box 19
ERe
Physical Description:
94 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
ERe 1-91 [including 19A, 42A, and 72A]: Exterior views of the chapel from the north, and one interior view showing the high
altar and choir loft. Includes views of the north façade, the north entrance, the illumination towers for side altars on either
side of the entrance, and miscellaneous views and details of the external staircase to the sacristy and sacristy windows.
Box 19
ERf
Physical Description:
70 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
ERf 1-69 [including 44A]: Exterior views of the chapel from the west. Includes views of the façade, of chairs and tables set
out in front of the west façade, of the drainage spout and rainwater reservoir, and of the pyramidal forms in the reservoir.
Box 19
ERg
Physical Description:
194 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
ERg 1-190 [including 63A-63B, 88A, 176A]: Exterior views of the chapel from the east and a view of the chapel interior showing
details of benches. Includes views of the east façade (some show details of the "pyramid" to the north-east of the chapel
in the foreground), the east entrance, the illumination towers for side altars at either side of the north entrance, the outdoor
service space at east end of the chapel, and the outdoor pulpit.
Box 20
ERh 1-81, 93-94
Physical Description:
86 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 9 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous exterior views and details of the chapel. Includes views of the main (south) entrance showing the enameled door,
west tower, north towers, the roof, and the north, south, and east façades.
Box 20
ERh 82-92
Physical Description:
11 items
black-and-white slides
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Exterior views of the chapel from the south and miscellaneous details, including details of the texture of the sprayed-concrete
wall surfaces.
Box 20
ERi
Physical Description:
149 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
ERi 1-149: Interior views and details of the chapel, including decorative elements, windows, doorways, the high altar, and
people sitting on benches. Includes views both during and after construction.
Box 20
ERj
Physical Description:
162 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
ERj 1-160 [including 115A and 117A]: Views of other structures on the hill, including the priest's house, pilgrims' hostel,
"pyramid," and the war monument.
Box 20
ERk
Physical Description:
38 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 9 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
ERk 1-39: Negatives are accompanied by 39 original paper folders and contact prints; the bulk of the contact prints are marked
with cropping lines. The envelope filed as ERk 31 was found empty at the time of processing.
box 21
ERl
Physical Description:
365 items
color slides
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
ERl 1-362 [including 60A-60B, 248A, 276A, 293A]: Exterior and interior views of the chapel, and views of the priest's house,
pilgrims' hostel, "pyramid," café, and dormitories. Includes distant views of the chapel, views and details of the outdoor
pulpit, high altar, and communion rail, as well as views of the construction work and of Dominican priests processing into
the south entrance. Also includes images of a plaster model of the chapel.
Un cabanon à Cap-Martin (1952)
Scope and Contents
See also: Series II. Artwork, portraits, and notebooks (1907-circa 1960), which contains images of Le Corbusier and others
at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, both in his cabanon and at the restaurant L'Étoile de Mer.
Box 22
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
323 items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
CC 1-321 [including 313A-313B]: Exterior and interior views and details of the Cabanon à Cap-Martin, restaurant L'Étoile de
Mer, and the nearby E-1027 house. Includes views down over the cabanon showing its position within the landscape, and interior
views of the living and working spaces. Some images feature Le Corbusier, an unidentified Rebutato brother, as well as various
artworks and murals by Le Corbusier.
Box 22
Color slides
Physical Description:
44 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
CC 322-365: Exterior and interior views of Cabanon à Cap-Martin and restaurant L'Étoile de Mer, including views of murals
by Le Corbusier on the wall by the door to the cabanon.
Box 22
Le Concours de Strasbourg pour 800 logements (1951)
Physical Description:
51 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
CS 1-51: Images of a model.
Chandigarh (1951-1985)
Scope and Contents
This material was received labeled and divided into six groups, an arrangement that has been preserved.
Box 22
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
161 items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
ChG 1-155 [including 17A-17E, 20A-20B]: Various views of people watching small pleasure boats on a lake, a woman carrying
a basket on her head, cattle on a road, and people walking past the building under construction. Also includes images of plans
reproduced in
Œuvre complète, Volumes 5, 6, 7, and 8, images of drawings, and images of a model of the Capitol. ChG 44-108 is a sequence of images listed
in the original inventory as "Chandigarh, Urbanisme" and includes miscellaneous landscapes, street scenes, views of housing,
shops, and other structures.
Box 25
Color slides
Physical Description:
104 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
ChT 1-96, 142-149: Exterior views and details of the Palais de Justice, Palais de l'Assemblée, and Le Secrétariat, as well
as photographs of streets and buildings in Chandigarh, and of workers, women, and children on the site. Also includes a photograph
of a design sketch by Le Corbusier for the High Court tapestry (dated 1954), and photographs of the actual tapestries in the
completed courts.
Box 25
Color transparencies
Physical Description:
49 items
6 x 9 cm., 6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
ChT 97-141: Exterior views.
Box 22
Centre Civique (circa 1951)
Centre Civique (circa 1951): circa 1951
Physical Description:
43 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 9 cm., 6 x 6 cm., 40 x 55 mm.
Scope and Contents
ChC 1-43: Distant views of the Palais de Justice, the lakeside road approaching the Capitol from the west, the Secrétariat
under construction, and general landscapes. Also includes views of the construction work in progress on unidentified buildings.
Box 23
Le Palais de Justice (1952-1956)
Physical Description:
645 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 9 cm., 35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 5 x 7 in.
Scope and Contents
ChJ 1-644 [including 132A, 429A, 431A, 587A-587B, and 601A]: Exterior and interior views of the Palais de Justice, Palais
de l'Assemblée, Secrétariat, both during and after construction. Also includes images of pages from
Œuvre complète, Volume 5, Volume 6, and
Volume 7, images of plans of the Palais de l'Assemblée being displayed in an exhibition, images of Le Corbusier's design sketches
for courtroom tapestries, and interior views of two of the lower courts that show these completed tapestries.
Le Secrétariat (1952-1956)
Box 24
ChS 1-478
Physical Description:
478 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
ChS 1-478: Various views of the construction work at various stages, the exterior and interior of the building, and views
of the Palais de Justice from inside Secrétariat. Also includes images of plans, models of Le Secrétariat, and unidentified
drawings.
Box 25
ChS 479-749
Physical Description:
271 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
ChS 479-749 [including 183A, 265A, 588A, 708A-708C]: Views of the construction work at various stages, of roads being constructed,
of children asleep under the parasol on site, of people doing laundry in the lake, and various exterior views of the building.
Also includes interior views of restaurant, a view of the Palais de Justice from inside Secrétariat, and images of photographic
prints being displayed on easels.
Box 24
Le Palais de l'Assemblée (1952-1962)
Physical Description:
252 items
black-and-white negatives
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
ChA 1-249 [including 120A, 124A, 180A, 206A]: Miscellaneous exterior and interior views of Le Palais de l'Assemblée, including
views of the construction work in progress, the exterior of the hyperboloid shell of the Assembly Chamber, views showing the
Palais de Justice from the roof of the Palais de l'Assemblée, details of miscellaneous decorative motifs modeled in concrete,
and details of the enameled decoration on the main entrance door. Also includes images of original plans, drawings, and models,
and images of pages from
Le Corbusier, L'atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960.
La Main Ouverte (1952-1985)
Box 25
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
47 items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
ChM 2-48: Images of models and drawings, some of which were reproduced in the
Œuvre complète volumes. Includes page 154 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 5, page 93 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 6, and page 109 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 7. Also includes an image of the site with an arrow superimposed to show the intended location of a monument.
Box 25
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
4 items
9 x 10 cm., 8 x 10 in.
Scope and Contents
ChM 1 and 49-51: Images of models.
Box 26
Maisons rurales à Lagny (1956)
Physical Description:
15 items
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
MR 1-15: Images of models.
Maisons Jaoul à Neuilly-sur-Seine (1952-1953)
Box 26
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
386 items
6 x 9 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
JN 1-383 [including 164A, 366A, 369A]: Exterior and interior views, and details of House A and House B. Includes views of
the façades, salons, bedrooms, staircases, bathrooms, kitchens, windows, roof vaults, and exposed pipes. Also includes images
of the construction work in progress and cyclists on the street.
Box 26
Color transparencies
Physical Description:
30 items
6 x 6 cm., 24 x 24 mm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
JN 384-413: Exterior and interior views and details of House A and House B.
L'Unité d'habitation à Nantes-Rezé (1952-1953)
Scope and Contents
These negatives were originally arranged by Hervé in five numbered sequences, an arrangement preserved as NAa to NAe below.
Box 26
NAa
Physical Description:
30 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
NAa 1-90: Images of the early stages of the construction work. This sequence of negatives was originally housed in glassine
envelopes numbered from N-I-1 to N-I-94 (numbers are not continuous) by Hervé. The glassine envelopes have been discarded,
and the original numbers have been transcribed onto the paper tags bearing the GRI's identification numbers. Each original
number is placed in square brackets after the corresponding GRI number.
Box 26
NAb
Physical Description:
153 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
NAb 1-153: Images of the later stages of the construction work, later than that of the photographs filed under NAa. Includes
exterior views of the building from various directions, views down from the upper levels of the building onto the site and
its surroundings, and views of the pilotis under building. This sequence of negatives was originally housed in glassine envelopes
numbered from N-II-1 to N-II-156 (numbers are not continuous) by Hervé. The glassine envelopes have been discarded, and the
original numbers have been transcribed onto the paper tags bearing the GRI's identification numbers. Each original number
is placed in square brackets after the corresponding GRI number. All photographs not specified by a number are details of
an unidentified building.
Box 27
NAc
Physical Description:
406 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
NAc 1-406: Exterior and interior views and details of the building. Includes exterior views from various directions, photographs
of the pool and kindergarten on the roof terrace, interior views of the entrance hall, apartments and people within them,
and details of the substructure of the building and the pilotis. This sequence of negatives are numbered in ink on their edges
from III-1 to III-445 (numbers are not continuous) by Hervé.
Box 27
NAd
Physical Description:
230 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
NAd 1-229 [including 136A]: Exterior and interior views of the building, including views of the kindergarten on the roof terrace,
the entrance hall, apartments, pilotis under building, children playing near the building, and bread being delivered. Also
includes an image of a sketch believed to be an elevation of the south façade. This sequence of negatives are numbered in
ink on their edges from IV-1 to IV-264 (numbers are not continuous) by Hervé.
Box 28
NAe
Physical Description:
50 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
NAe 1-176: Exterior views, including the building from various directions, and views of the pool, landscaping, parked cars,
and the pilotis under building. Interior views of the apartments, common areas, and emergency stairs, and details of the facades
and the substructure of the building. This sequence of negatives were originally housed in glassine envelopes numbered from
NM-1 to NM-219 (numbers are not continuous and NM-157 is repeated) by Hervé. The glassine envelopes have been discarded, and
the original numbers have been transcribed onto the paper tags bearing the GRI's identification numbers. Each original number
is placed in square brackets after the corresponding GRI number.
Box 28
NAf 1-126
Physical Description:
117 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
Various exterior views and details of the building, exterior and interior views of the construction work in progress, views
of kindergarten on the roof terrace, and views of people interacting with the building. Includes interior views of the entrance
hall, common areas, apartment balconies, bedrooms, and the footbridge over the pool on the east side of building. Also includes
an image of a site plan and of prints of Modulor panels on the east façade of the elevator tower. NAf 107-126 are accompanied
by original paper folders and contact prints.
Box 28
NAf 86-93
Physical Description:
8 items
black-and-white slides
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Includes images of the construction work in progress and views of the pilotis under the building.
Box 28
NAg 1-72
Physical Description:
95 items
color transparencies
6 x 9 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
NAg 1-72A (including 40A): Miscellaneous exterior views and details of the building, the pool on the east side of the building,
the footbridge over the pool, the the pool and kindergarten on the roof terrace, and the pilotis under the building. Interior
views of the entrance hall, common areas, elevator lobby, kindergarten, and the apartments, including the children's bedrooms.
Box 28
NAg 73-94
Physical Description:
22 items
color slides
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Exterior and interior views.
Box 28
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
46 items
6 x 6 cm., 5 x 7 in., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
LM 1-46: Images of sketches, drawings, diagrams, of wooden Modulor figures in Le Corbusier's atelier at 35 rue de Sèvres,
details of the Modulor panels on the elevator tower of L'Unité d'habitation à Marseille, images of a copy of Le Corbusier's
book
Le Modulor, and the "Modulor strip" displayed on a stone balustrade (LM 31-34 also show a copy of
Le Corbusier, Quand les cathédrales étaient blancs). Images of page 181 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 5, of two versions of a drawing by Le Corbusier entitled "Le jugement de Paris," and the interior of an unidentified building.
Box 28
Color negatives
Physical Description:
4 items
4 x 5 in., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
LM 47-50: Images of drawings of the Modulor figure and series, and one image of a Modulor stained-glass panel in the glazing
of the entrance hall of L'Unité d'habitation à Marseille.
Le Couvent de la Tourette (1953-1959)
Box 29
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
683 items
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
LT 1-675 [including 24A-24B, 138A, 188A-188B, 316A, 461A, 574A]: Images of models, the construction work in progress, miscellaneous
exterior views and details, views of the pilotis under the building, the circulation corridors, and the atrium in the central
court. Interior views of the church, of the undersides of the "canons à lumière" on the roof of the crypt, views of the altars
in the crypt of the church, the monks cells, and of monks celebrating mass at the altars in the crypt. Also includes an image
of Le Corbusier, his wife Yvonne, and Father Alain Couturier at the dining table of Le Corbusier's apartment at 24 rue Nungesser-et-Coli,
Paris (LT 1).
Box 29
Color negatives
Physical Description:
2 items
4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
LT 776, 777: Interior views.
Box 29
Color slides
Physical Description:
139 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
LT 676-817: Images of the construction work in progress, exterior views of the building from various directions, views of
the pilotis under the building, and the roof terraces. Interior views of the circulation corridors, library, atrium in the
central court, the church, refectory, monk's cells, and the oratory (both under construction and completed). LT 809 is misidentified
on mount as "Pav. Brésil."
Box 29
Color transparencies
Physical Description:
7 items
4 x 5 in., 10 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
LT 676-678, 775, 810-812: Exterior views of the construction work in progress (LT 676-678, and 775), and interior views (LT
810-812).
Palais de l'Association des Filateurs d'Ahmedabad (1954-1956)
Box 30
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
323 items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
PF 1-325 [including 180A, 277A, 284A]: Exterior views of the building from a variety of directions, of the roof terrace, pilotis
under the building, brise-soleil, exterior stairs, and the river on the east side of the building. Interior views of the ground
floor, first-floor, mezzanine over second-floor, assembly hall, restaurant, "brise-soleil," roof terrace, and the pilotis
under the building. PF 1-267 is sequence of medium format negatives numbered in ink on their edges from AHM-1 to AHM-329 (numbers
are not continuous) by Hervé. PF 289-325 are accompanied by original paper folders and contact prints.
Box 30
Color slides
Physical Description:
4 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
PF 326-329: Exterior views of the west façade, the exterior stairs and ramp on the west side of the building (taken from ground
floor entrance), and an interior view of the assembly hall. PF 326 is misidentified on verso as "Villa Shodan."
Box 30
Black-and-white transparencies
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Contents
PF 275-277A: Views of the "brise-soleil," exterior ramps, stairs, and west entrance.
Le Centre Culturel d'Ahmedabad: le Musée (1954-1957)
Le Centre Culturel d'Ahmedabad: le Musée, 1954-1957
Box 30
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
118 items
6 x 6 cm.; 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
AM 1-115 [including 74A, 81A-81B]: Views of the construction work in progress on the building, of space for the electrical
installation under the roof, images of plans, a drawing of the "deuxième projet" for the building, and an image of two small
children at the site. AM 1-73 is sequence of medium format negatives numbered in ink on their edges from AHU-1 to AU-84 (numbers
are not continuous) by Hervé; the "AHU" designation changes to "AU" after AHU 16-18.
Box 30
Color transparencies
Physical Description:
9 items
35 mm., 45 x 65 mm., 61 x 64 mm.
Scope and Contents
AM 116-124: Views across the central court at the level of the space for electrical installation under the roof, down into
the central court from the upper levels of the building, of the façades, and one image of the central court.
Maison d'habitation de Mrs. Manorama Sarabhai à Ahmedabad (1955-1956)
Box 31
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
150 items
6 x 9 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
AH 1-148A [including 127A]: Exterior views and details of the roof garden, terraces, garden, service block, courtyard, "toboggan,"
verandas, and pool. Interior views of verandas, library, living room, kitchen, bathrooms, and first-floor bedrooms. Also includes
details of unidentified carvings and an image of a model of a barrel-vault structure (possibly the roof structure for the
Sarabhai house) taken in the courtyard in front of Le Corbusier's atelier at 35 rue de Sèvres, Paris. AH 1-127 is sequence
of medium format negatives numbered in ink on their edges from AHS-1 to AHS-149 (numbers are not continuous) by Hervé. AH
134-138 are accompanied by original paper folders and contact prints.
Box 31
Color transparencies
Physical Description:
9 items
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
AH 149-157: Views of the roof garden, family members in the garden, a view of the garden from the veranda, and an interior
view of the kitchen.
Box 31
Color slide
Physical Description:
1 item
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
AH 158: Exterior view of a section of the roof, taken from the ground below. This image is a copy of AH 149.
Villa Shodhan à Ahmedabad (1955-1956)
Box 31
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
292 items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
AV 1-292: Views and details of the façades, of the passage from the house to the service block, the driveway by the entrance
to the house, the brise-soleil on south-west side, the pool, and terraces. Interior views of the entrance hall, living room,
kitchen, staircases, and landings. Also includes images of models. AV 1-158 is sequence of medium format negatives numbered
in ink on edges from AHSH-1 to AHS-188 (numbers are not continuous) by Hervé. AV 188-194 are medium format negatives accompanied
by original paper folders and contact prints.
Box 31
Black-and-white slide
Physical Description:
1 item
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
AV 187A: An interior view of the living room.
Box 31
Color transparencies
Physical Description:
12 items
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
AV 297-304: Exterior views of the south-west and north-west façades, and interior views of the entrance hall, living room,
and dining room.
Box 31
Color slides
Physical Description:
4 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
AV 293-296: Exterior views down through the void from the third floor terrace and up through the aperture in the roof from
the third floor terrace.
Box 31
Stade Baghdad (1956)
Physical Description:
27 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
BS 1-27: Images of a model. BS 1-7 is a sequence of medium format negatives originally housed in glassine envelopes numbered
from STB-7 to STB-13 by Hervé. The glassine envelopes have been discarded, and the original numbers have been transcribed
onto the paper tags bearing the GRI's identification numbers. Each original number is placed in square brackets after the
corresponding GRI number. BS 8-27 is sequence of medium format negatives numbered in ink on edges by Hervé from BD-1 to BD-20.
Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l'Occident à Tokyo (1957)
Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l'Occident à Tokyo, 1957
Box 31
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
234 items
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
TM 1-233 [including 68A]: Exterior views of the museum, the exterior staircase to the main first floor entrance to the museum,
visitors on first floor landing of the staircase, views across the exhibition court, views of the roof structures, pilotis
and the support columns for the entrance staircase at ground floor level. Interior views of the ground floor entrance hall,
ground floor exhibition hall, first floor exhibition hall, internal ramps, and views of the roof skylights. Also includes
images of models, and various street scenes which are assumed to be Tokyo. TM 1-68A is sequence of 6 x 6 cm. negatives numbered
in ink on edges from MT-1 to MT-72 (numbers are not continuous) by Hervé. TM 91 is blank frame. TM 68A is accompanied by an
annotated glassine envelope.
Box 31
Color transparencies
Physical Description:
2 items
6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
TM 250-251: Exterior views.
Box 31
Color slides
Physical Description:
17 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
TM 234-249: Exterior views of the museum, exhibition court, staircases, and of the pilotis at the ground floor level. Also
includes details of the south-east façade and one image of visitors on the landing of the exterior staircase to the main first
floor entrance to the museum.
Box 32
L'Unité d'habitation à Briey-en-Forêt (1957)
Physical Description:
22 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
BR 1-22: Images of a model.
L'Unité d'habitation à Berlin (1957)
Box 32
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
38 items
35 mm., 68 x 108 mm.
Scope and Contents
BE 1, 9-42 [including 9A-9C]: Views of the construction work in progress and one image of a drawing, an east elevation of
the building.
Box 32
Black-and-white slides
Physical Description:
7 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
BE 2-8 : Views of the construction work in progress.
Le Pavillon Philips à Bruxelles (1958)
Box 32
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
411 items
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
PP 1-411: Images of a model of the pavilion's structural frame, of the model with a "skin" over the frame, various views of
the construction work in progress, and images taken during presentations of Le Corbusier's "Poème Électronique" in the pavilion.
Box 32
Color slides
Physical Description:
19 items
35 mm., 95 x 125 mm.
Scope and Contents
PP 412-430: Miscellaneous exterior views, views of the entrance, and images of the "Sculpture Polychrome."
La Maison du Brésil dans la Cite universitaire de Paris (1958)
Box 32
PB 1-465
Physical Description:
465 items
black-and-white negatives
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
PB 1-465 [including 1A]: Views of the early stages of the construction work, and images of drawings, a plan, and a model.
Box 33
PB 466-686
Physical Description:
219 items
black-and-white negatives
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
PB 466-686 [including 617A, 656A, 656B]:
Box 33
PB 467
Physical Description:
1 item
black-and-white photographic print
7 x 10 cm.
Scope and Contents
A contact print depicting the construction work in progress. Print was made from negative PB 466.
Box 33
L'Église de Firminy-Vert (1960-1965)
Physical Description:
71 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
FE 1-71: Images of a model, and of single or two-page spreads from
The development by Le Corbusier of the Design for l'Église de Firminy, a Church in France [North Carolina State College, School of Design, Student Publications, Volume 14, Number 2, 1964]. Also includes one image
of page 15 of an unidentified book.
Firminy-Vert: La maison des jeunes et de la culture (1960-1965)
Box 34
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
132 items
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 98 x 132 mm.
Scope and Contents
FC 1-132: Includes exterior views from multiple directions, including a view of the building from the south-east showing the
stadium under construction, and views of the pilotis under the building. Also includes façade details, interior views of the
first-floor corridor, foyer, and library. FC 126-132 are accompanied by contact prints.
Box 34
Color slides
Physical Description:
165 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
FC 133-297: Includes exterior views of the building from various directions, views of stadium under construction to the west
of the building, façade details, views of the entrance and ramp, and interior views of the small foyer on the ground floor,
of the first-floor corridors, library, workroom/studio, and reading-room. Also includes images of architectural photographs
and models being displayed in an unidentified room.
Firminy-Vert: L'Unité d'habitation (1960-1965)
Box 34
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
43 items
35 mm., 6 x 8 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
FU 1-42 [including 36A]: Includes exterior views of the building from the east, views of the roof terrace, views of the pilotis
under the building, façade details, interior views, and images of a model. FU 41-42 are accompanied by contact prints.
Box 34
Color slides
Physical Description:
78 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
FU 43-120: Includes exterior views of the building from the south-west, views of the pilotis under the building, details of
the west façade and roof terraces, and interior views of the nurseries and schools on the roof terraces.
Box 35
L'écluse de Kembs-Niffer (1960-1965)
Physical Description:
27 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 9 cm., 24 x 57 mm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
KN 1-27: Images of a model of a tower containing a lock-keeper's station.
Box 35
Orsay-Paris, projet pour un Centre de culture (1961)
Physical Description:
64 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
OP 1-64: Images of a model, some showing the model positioned in front of a panoramic background photograph of Paris, France.
Visual Arts Center à Cambridge, Massachusetts (Carpenter Center) (1961-1964)
Box 35
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
102 items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
BC 1-101A: Images of a model of the site for the Center, and of a model of the Center itself. Includes images of the facades,
exterior ramps, and interior views of the studios.
Box 35
Color slides
Physical Description:
80 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
BC 110-189: Includes exterior views of the building from various directions, views of the ramps, the pilotis under the building,
the entrance lobby and the second-floor terrace, interior views of the auditorium, studios, and workshop, and a detail of
the staircase tower. Also includes images of a model, a commemorative plaque, an illustration in an unidentified book, a view
of the city skyline across water (BC 188), and of Boston University (BC 187).
Box 35
Color transparencies
Physical Description:
8 items
4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
BC 102-109: Images of a model.
Un Pavillon d'exposition à Zürich (Centre Le Corbusier) (1963-1967)
Box 35
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
120 items
35 mm., 6 x 9 cm., 6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
PZ 1-113 [including 24A-24F, 25A]: Includes exterior views of the building from various directions and of the construction
work in progress, views of the main entrance door, interior views of the ground floor and exhibition hall, views of the ramps
and stairways, a view of the roof terrace, and a detail of the north façade. Also includes images of drawings.
Box 35
Color negative
Physical Description:
1 item
4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
PZ 119: An exterior view of the building from the south-west.
Box 35
Color slides
Physical Description:
5 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
PZ 114-118: Exterior views of the building from the south, south-west, and north-west, and one exterior view of the construction
work in progress. One slide is unmounted.
Box 35
L'Ambassade de France à Brasilia (1964-1965)
Physical Description:
49 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
AF 1-49: Images of a model.
Box 35
L'hôpital de Venise (1964-1965)
Physical Description:
17 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
VH 1-17: Images of a model.
Box 35
Palais des Congrès à Strasbourg (1964)
Physical Description:
34 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
PS 1-34: Images of a model.
L'atelier Corbusier, 35 rue de Sèvres (1922-1965)
Box 35
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
13 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 63 x 51 mm.
Scope and Contents
AT 1-8, 10-14: Interior views of the first floor atelier, views of the entrance and ground floor access corridor, and one
image of the staircase. Le Corbusier is present in AT 5.
Box 35
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
AT 9: Interior view of the first-floor atelier. This is an internegative made from negative AT 10.
Box 35
L'atelier de la recherche patiente (1960)
Physical Description:
28 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm., 6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
RP 1-28: Images of pages from Le Corbusier's 1960 publication
L'atelier de la recherche patiente, most depicting drawings and plans.
Box 35
Œuvre complète, Volume 1 (1910-1929)
Physical Description:
10 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
OC 1-10: Images of pages from Le Corbusier's publication
Œuvre complète Volume 1, 1910-1929. Includes pages 9, 17-21, and 77. Also includes one cropped image from page 148 of
Œuvre complète, Volume 4, 1938-1946 (OC 10).
Unidentified architectural projects
Scope and Contents
This file contains negatives that have not been identified, consisting of images of both actual buildings and of architectural
models. They may be documentation of Le Corbusier's architectural work, or collected reference material.
Black-and-white negatives
Box 36
Unidentified building
Physical Description:
47 items
black-and-white-negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 4 x 5 in., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Exterior views and details of an unidentified site and building.
Box 36
Unidentified models
Physical Description:
10 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm.
Scope and Contents
Images of four different unidentified models.
Box 36
Color negatives: unidentified building
Physical Description:
9 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Images of an unidentifed building.
Box 36
Color slide: unidentified model
Physical Description:
1 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Image of an unidentified architectural model.
Box 36
Color transparencies: unidentified project
Physical Description:
2 items
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
An unidentified exterior view of one corner of a concrete building, and a view from a balcony overlooking a large public space
and city. Possibly different buildings.
Artwork, portraits, and notebooks (1907-circa 1960), Series II.
1949-1965, undated
Scope and Contents
Series II comprises Lucien Hervé's documentation of Le Corbusier's life and activities not necessarily linked to specific
architectural projects. The series is arranged into subject files created by Hervé. They include a printed chronology of Le
Corbusier's life and major architectural works, portraits of Le Corbusier and his wife Yvonne, often with professional collaborators
and friends, item-by-item documentation of his artwork, hundreds of pages from Le Corbusier's personal notebooks, images of
Le Corbusier's student and apprentice work, images taken at various exhibitions, and a collection "d'objets trouvés" which
contains miscellaneous reference material. There is some conceptual overlap, as this series does contain images of paintings
and tapestries in Chandigarh, relief work in concrete at L'Unité d'habitation à Marseille, and murals from Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
This material has been left in its original order, as it must be noted that Hervé created a separate category for it, to differentiate
it from the documentation of projects.
The dates listed in parentheses are the dates of the original material (artwork, exhibitions, etc.), and do not reflect the
specific dates of exposure or printing for this photographic material, as these dates remain unknown.
Additional information: In the fall of 2006, Allan Tomlinson rehoused this collection and conducted a detailed inventory of its scope and contents.
All negative dimensions in this series were taken directly from this legacy data, therefore the data is accurate, but not
consistently expressed in standard archival nomenclature.
Arrangement
This series is arranged by subjects, including: Chronology; Artwork; Le Corbusier's notebooks; Portraits; Exhibitions; and
Collections d'objet trouvé.
Box 37
Chronology (1887-1965)
Physical Description:
17 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
TS 1-17: Images of different sections of a printed chronology of Le Corbusier's life and work. Negatives are of various sizes,
all are cut down from larger originals, and some have some portions of text masked out.
Box 37
Le Corbusier's student and apprentice work (1912-1913)
Physical Description:
22 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8 cm.
Scope and Contents
CF 1-22: Images of displays of drawings and other design work done by Le Corbusier as a student or apprentice. CF 1-21 is
sequence of negatives originally housed in glassine envelopes numbered from FO-15A to FO-25B by Hervé. The glassine envelopes
have been discarded, and the original numbers have been transcribed onto the paper tags bearing the GRI's identification numbers.
Each original number is placed in square brackets after the corresponding GRI number.
Drawings, paintings, sculptures, furniture (1928, circa 1950)
Scope and Contents
Images of artworks by Le Corbusier, including sketches, paintings, and sculptures. Also includes two images of furniture designed
by Le Corbusier - the LC1 Sling Chair (1928) and the LC4 Chaise Lounge (1928).
Black-and-white negatives
Box 38
Dossier 13
Physical Description:
611 items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 8 x 10 in.
Scope and Contents
Images of artworks by Le Corbusier, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, and tapestry photographed within his studio
at 24 rue Nungesser et Coli, as well as other locations. Notably includes interior views of artwork within Le Corbusier's
cabanon and the restaurant L'Etoile de Mer at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, and of E-1027, and views of the mural known as
Sous les pilotis,
Graffite à Cap Martin, or
Three Women in the basement of E-1027. Also includes a few photographed copies of press articles featuring Le Corbusier's work (1954-1965).
The majority of the negatives are numbered and some are accompanied by their original annotated glassine envelopes.
No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material was Dossier 13.
Box 39
Dossier 13, continued
Physical Description:
834 items
6 x 6 cm, 4 x 5 in., 6.5 x 9 in., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Images of artworks by Le Corbusier, including drawings, paintings, and some sculptures. Many depict the artworks clipped to
a display board, or leaned up against a wall to be photographed. The majority of the negatives are numbered and some are accompanied
by their original annotated glassine envelopes.
No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material was Dossier 13.
Box 37
Furniture
Physical Description:
4 items
6 x 7 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
CM 1-4: Furniture designed by Le Corbusier. Three copies of original negatives (of poor quality) depicting the metallic skeleton
of the LC1 Sling Chair (1928), and one original negative of a LC4 Chaise Lounge (1928) sitting in front of a wall painted
by Le Corbusier.
Box 38
Color negative
Physical Description:
1 item
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
An image of a television screen, showing a film still depicting people in Victorian era costume dancing in a ballroom. This
negative was found amongst the black-and-white negatives in Box 38, and has been left with this material.
Box 38
Color slides
Physical Description:
4 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Images of four line drawings of female forms. Slides are unmounted.
Le Corbusier's notebooks (1907-circa 1960)
Voyage de Jeunesse (1907-1911)
Scope and Contents
Images of pages from original notebooks believed to have been produced by Le Corbusier between 1907 and 1911 during his travels
through Europe as a young man.
Box 37
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
107 items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VO 1-104, 106-108: Images of sketches and writings.
Box 37
Black-and-white transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
6 x 7 cm.
Scope and Contents
VO 105: An image of a sketch (a study of a landscape) from one of Le Corbusier's notebooks.
Box 37
Miscellaneous notebooks and sketchbooks (circa 1955)
Physical Description:
320 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
NB 1-320: Images of pages from Le Corbusier's various notebooks, includes writings and sketches. Visible dates include 1957
and 1962.
box 41
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
607 items
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in., 7 x 10 cm.
Scope and Contents
This group of negatives consists primarily of informal portraits of Le Corbusier. It includes images taken at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin,
France featuring Le Corbusier and Yvonne, Thomas Rebutato, Jean Badovici, and others, many taken at the restaurant L'Etoile
de Mer and at E-1027. It includes images of Le Corbusier painting and sculpting, of Atelier Le Corbusier on rue de Sèvres,
Paris, of Le Corbusier visiting L'Unité d'habitation à Marseille during and after construction, and six contact prints of
portraits of Le Corbusier in his Boulogne-Billancourt studio apartment. It also includes images of a deceased Yvonne Gallis
in her coffin (1957). The majority of the negatives are numbered and some are accompanied by original annotated glassine envelopes.
While the majority of these images (especially those 6 x 6 cm.) were taken by Hervé in the 1950s and 1960s, this file undoubtedly
contains copies of images taken by other photographers. The images of Jean Badovici are original negatives, but they are believed
to be pre-war and were not taken by Hervé. There are also images of Le Corbusier at Pessac, and a group portrait including
Fernand Léger, both dated circa 1928, that were not taken by Hervé.
No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material was Dossier 12.
Box 40
Color negatives
Physical Description:
328 items
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 4 x 5 in., 13 x 12.5 cm.
Scope and Contents
Images of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Le Corbusier, as well as portraits of Le Corbusier posing with his artwork.
Notably includes both sketches and completed artwork for Chandigarh, images of the exterior of Etoile de Mer at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin,
and images of a deceased Yvonne Gallis in her coffin (1957).
No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material was Dossier C3.
Box 37
Exhibitions
undated
Physical Description:
209 items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 35 mm.
Scope and Contents
XS 1-209: Images of unidentified exhibitions of Le Corbusier's work, showing the arrangement and installation of artwork that
includes paintings, sculptures, and architectural models. Also includes images of photographic prints of the exhibitions clipped
to a display board.
Collections d'objets trouvés
undated
box 42
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
66 items
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
Scope and Contents
A collection of images that may have been used as reference, source, or planning material. Includes images of unidentified
paintings, sketches, and texts, as well as architectural prespective drawings from a book, unidentified furniture, and images
of the cover of Le Corbusier's
Vers une Architecture, the 24th Edition. It also includes images of a crab shell, possibly the shell collected on Long Island, New York, that supposedly
inspired the design of La Chapelle de Ronchamp. Many of the negatives are accompanied by their original annotated glassine
envelopes.
No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material was Dossier 15.
Box 36
Color slides
Physical Description:
22 items
35 mm.
Scope and Contents
Exterior views of unidentified sites and buildings, and one exterior view of the Charles and Ray Eames House, Pacific Palisades,
Los Angeles. One slide is labeled "Förderer," possibly a building by architect Walter M. Förderer.
Box 36
Color transparency
Physical Description:
1 item
3 x 6 cm.
Scope and Contents
Image of an architectural model of De Bijenkorf Department Store, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, by Marcel Breuer, 1957. Transparency
has been cut down from a larger size.