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

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

1947-1952

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 19.1 x 18.2 cm

PH1984:0954

• exterior view

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]

France

• architecture

• stairs
• roof

© J. Paul Getty Trust