Manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and photographs, 1911-1970 (bulk 1920-1955).

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Manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and photographs, 1911-1970 (bulk 1920-1955).

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Collection contains manuscripts for lectures, including radio talks, published and unpublished writings, including a film project. Sketches relate to writings on modern architecture, urbanism, and Algers. Correspondence comprises letters received from Jacques Duboin (1 letter, 1950), Bauchant (1 letter, 1924) and Amédée Ozenfant (7 letters, 1918, 1921-1922). Seven letters and 2 postcards were sent by Le Corbusier to others (ca. 1925-1926). Fourteen black-and-white photographs document his architectural designs. Manuscripts and sketches comprise, in whole or part, ca. 27 works, some of which are published titles: Aircraft, Poésie sur Alger, Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture de de l'urbanisme, Manière de penser l'urbanisme, and La ville radieuse. Some pages of manuscripts and letters sent are written on the letterhead of Jenneret architects, or L'Esprit Nouveau.

ca. 100 items.

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Duboin, Jacques, 1878-1976

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Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966

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French painter, writer and teacher, Ozenfant opened painting schools in Paris (1924 and 1932), London (1938), Cannes (1939) and New York (1939). In 1953 he was investigated by McCarthy and dismissed. He returned to France, where he was renaturalized. From the description of Letter to Prade, 1933 Nov. 27. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80589467 The French painter Ozenfant was also an author and a professor. He founded the art review L'esprit nouveau (1920-192...

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

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Architect. Le Corbusier, born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, adopted pseudonym Le Corbusier, 1920. Studied engraving at School of Applied Arts, La Chaux de Fonds, 1900-1905. Employed in office of architect Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, in 1907; August Perret, Paris, and with Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, Berlin, in 1910. Founder-Director, L'Atelier d'Art Réunis, La Chaux de Fonds, 1909-1914, and Instructor, l'Eplattenier's Nouvelle Section de l'Ecole d'Art, La Chaux de Fonds, 1911-1914; also work...