Villa Chimanbhai: Design development prints

People:

Atelier Le Corbusier (draughtsman)
Le Corbusier (architect)
Le Corbusier (draughtsman)
Chinubhai Chimanbhai (client)

Title:

Villa Chimanbhai: Design development prints

Date:

between February 1953 and March 1954

Description:

- Part of a larger group of reprographic copies and other works from the design development process of Le Corbusier's unexecuted Villa Chimanbhai project, acquired from the Chimanbhai family. Included are at least three series of copies -- some with annotated changes -- a model, photographs of a different model, cut-outs sent to the client which demonstrate changes in the size and plan of individual rooms, and related letters. The works were accessioned in the groups that they were received in.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
17 reprographic copy(ies)

Technique and media:

Diazotype with graphite

Reference number:

DR1990:0023:001-017

Inscription:

dated - by an undetermined hand, on most of the drawings: "January 1954" [prints not fully examined due to poor condition]; and on some of the drawings: "February 1953"; or "18 January 1954" [prints not fully examined due to poor condition] inscribed - by a contemporary hand, possibly the draughtsman, in graphite, on diazotypes nos. 4902 and 4903, u.r.: "Revised in A'bad / -3-54 J.L.U."

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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