View of the roof of Unité d'habitation under construction showing Le Corbusier and two men at the top of a flight of concrete stairs, Marseille, France

People:

Lucien Hervé (photographer)
Le Corbusier (architect)
André Wogenscky (architect)
Vladimir Bodiansky (engineer)

Title:

View of the roof of Unité d'habitation under construction showing Le Corbusier and two men at the top of a flight of concrete stairs, Marseille, France

Date:

1947-1952

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.1 x 18.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:0954

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by unknown hands, in graphite, verso, u.l.: "Le Corbersier / Rec'd July 1967"; u.r.: "160"; l.l.: "$ 50"; and l.r.: "L'Unite d'Habitation / Marseilles 1947-52" stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, c.: "Lucien hervé / 11, Rue Soyer-Neuilly-S/Seine-Mai. 64-66 / MENTION du NOM OBLIGATOIRE / ses Droits de reproduction reservés" [sideways] signed and dated - by the architect, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "Le Corbusier / 2 juillet / 57 [?]" ["Le Corbusier" underlined] numbered - by an unknown hand, in blue ball-point pen, on the print, verso, c. :"X-111-71" [underlined, sideways]

Location:

France

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

stairs
roof

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

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