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APRIL 2021

We are pleased to announce the reopening of the Villa Curutchet, the and the Maison Blanche (Villa Jeanneret Perret) while other sites such as the Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut or the Péniche Louise-Catherine are the subject of major restoration campaigns.

We are grateful to the institutions and donors who, through their support, contribute to the protection and transmission of Le Corbusier's work.

Until we meet again, we invite you to join us on social networks to share new discoveries such as "Le Corbusier, dialogue of arts" and "Le Corbusier, planet as a construction site"

EVENTS

Call for collaborative art projects 2021

UH of Firminy

As part of the European Heritage Days 2021, the Association of the inhabitants of the Unité d'habitation de Firminy is launching a call for collaborative art projects on the theme "I love Le Corbusier". More.... Espace Bézard-Le Corbusier

Reopening from March 28, 2021 by appointment.

The Espace Bézard - Le Corbusier is dedicated to the utopian project of the Radiant Farm and the Cooperative Village imagined in the 1930s by Norbert Bézard and Le Corbusier. Plans, models and archives trace the history of this project. Ceramics, drawings and paintings by Norbert Bézard are also presented.

Association Piacé le radieux, More .... Bézard - Le Corbusier

PUBLICATION

Growing up Modern The architectural philosophy Childhoods in Iconic Homes of Le Corbusierer

Julia Jamrozik, Coryn Kempster Mickaël Labbé

How does one grow up in a modernist Le Corbusier is an architect who residence? not only builds, but who never ceases to tell us how we should Does this environment shape children's build. Through a patient and future view of architecture? detailed study of the architect's texts, the vision of one of the great The authors conducted interviews with those creators of modernity is presented who spent their childhood in radically in its multiple dimensions. modernist buildings and spaces. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021. Birkhäuser | 2021 SUPPORT THE RESTORATION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL WORK

Notre-Dame-du-Haut Chapel, Ronchamp

Protected as a historical monument since 1967 and registered with 17 works of Le Corbusier on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016, the Notre-Dame-du-Haut Chapel is the subject of a vast restoration project until 2024.

More ... SUPPORT

Visit of the Chapel by the Scientific Committee on February 16, 2021, Ronchamp

Web-Série "La Chapelle en Chantier" 2021-2024

Opus #1 Opus #2 What is concrete? The south façade, how is it built?

More ... More ... Kembs-Niffer Lock

The project to restore the control tower and the administrative building of the Kembs-Niffer lock, classified as a historic monument since 2005, has been selected by the Stéphane Bern 2020 mission. The water tower of Podensac, since 2019, also benefits from this program of calls for participatory donations of the Heritage Foundation.

The water tower of Podensac, since 2019, also benefits from this program of calls for participative donations of the Fondation du Patrimoine.

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Asile Flottant

Built in 1915 and converted by by Le Corbusier as a floating asylum for the Salvation Army in 1929, the Péniche Louise Catherine, had sank during the flood of the Seine in February 2018.

The reinforced concrete barge, classified historical monument, has welcomed homeless people for 65 years with a social restaurant and 160 beds during the winter periods.

Support the restoration project of the barge carried out with the DRAC Ile de France and the Le Corbusier Foundation by the Japanese Association of Architectural Design (ADAN), owner of the barge since October 2020.

SUPPORT More ... PRESERVATION OF THE WORK

The is doing restoration work during the closing of the House due to the health crisis.

These works concern the painting of the entrance hall and annex rooms according to the color palette discovered during the 2009 restoration. The maintenance and repair of the wooden and woodwork metal are also on

the program.

These works are conducted under the control of the Regional Conservation of Historic Monuments, DRAC Ile-de-France and Pierre-Antoine Gatier, Chief Architect of Historic Monuments. The Fondation Le Corbusier is pleased to thank Cassina for its support. INFORMATION

Open to the public

Villa Le Lac

April-May-June 2021

Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 pm out of schedule by appointment (groups). ------Exhibition From April 3 to May 30, 2021: Camera Anima by Michel Lorand (Belgium). Discover...

Video installation. Open to the public

Maison Blanche

Opening hours: Friday - Saturday - Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Open to the public

Casa Curutchet

Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 5. p.m. Réservation requested : [email protected] Discover.. +54 221 421-8032

BROADCAST

ASLC Annual Meeting

About sixty members and partners of the Association des Sites Le Corbusier - coming from Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and France - met for the Annual Meeting 2020-2021 Association des Sites which was held by videoconference. Le Corbusier You can watch the webcast here. 1st February 2021 LE CORBUSIER FROM HOME #3

Due to government measures, the Fondation Le Corbusier remains closed to the public.

With the Le Corbusier From Home program, the Fondation team invites you to discover or rediscover the life and work of Le Corbusier, with two weekly online appointments:

Tuesday: "Le Corbusier, dialogue of arts" to discover a selection of his pictorial projects in connection with his favorite themes.

Thursday: "Le Corbusier, the planet as a worksite" to discover a selection of his unrealized or unfortunately destroyed architectural projects.

Join us !

#LeCorbusierChezVous #CultureChezNous #LeCorbusierFromHome #MuseumFromHome

Le Corbusier, dialogue of Arts

PAINTING

"Painting is a terrible, intense, merciless battle, without "From 1918 to 1927, my paintings borrowed their form witnesses; a duel between the artist and himself. The battle only from bottles, carafes and glass on bistro or is inside restaurant tables. Severe discipline, austere but fruitful - inside - unknown to the outside." discipline: one must seek and one must find." Le Corbusier, The Workshop of Patient Research, p. 219 Le Corbusier, Unité, 1948 pp. 45

Je rêvais (1ère version), 1953 Nature morte du Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau, Huile sur toile 1924 Dimensions : H : 1,30 m x L : 1,62 m Huile sur toile Signé et daté en bas à gauche Le Corbusier 21 octobre 53 Dimensions : H : 0,81 m x L : 1,00 m Au dos : Je rêvais 21 oct. 53 Le Corbusier Signé et daté en bas vers la droite Jeanneret 24 Peinture FLC 141

Tuesday #1 Tuesday#2 Discover Discover Le Corbusier, the planet as a worksite. Projects not realized or demolished.

Foreman's house , Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1925 "We took up the study of the Loucheur house of 1929. We applied it to the local Letter from Le Corbusier to Mrs. Meyer conditions of materials and workmanship "We dreamed of making a house for you (stone masonry, concrete roof and floors, house that would be smooth and plain like a glass or other woodwork). The house was chest of beautiful proportions and that would opened to the sun and to the most not be offended by multiple accidents that beautiful landscape, with its back to the create an artificial and illusory violent wind, taking into account the slope, picturesqueness and that sound bad under installing the dwelling on a stilt open to the the light and only add to the tumult around. valley and allowing for outdoor living under We are in opposition to the fashion in this the house." country and abroad of complicated and clashing houses." (...) Excerpt from Le Corbusier, Complete Works, volume 4, 1938-1946 Excerpt from Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Complete Works, volume 1, 1910-1929

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