In 2003, famous italian photographer Guido Guidi created a series
documenting a selection of buildings by Le Corbusier in France. The project
is collected in this publication, showing a wide range of
photographs never published before.
Guido Guidi (b. 1941 in Cesena,
Italy) has been pioneering Italian landscape and architectural
photography for more than half a century. This series is a prime example
of appreciation of "constructed landscapes". In what became a very
personal project for the artist, he chose some of Le Corbusier's less
well known edifices: the Maison la Roche (completed in 1925), the Maison
Planeix (1928), the Villa Savoye (1931), the French Salvation Army's
Cité de Refuge (1933), and the factory building Usine Duval (1951). The
resulting photographs reveal Guidi's intensive examination of Le
Corbusier's work, preserving the details of the spaces, the materials,
the colors, and the pure geometry of the shapes. Instead of lingering on
the surface of the symbolic, Guidi reveals the traces of Le Corbusier's
conceptions, helping us to decrypt the great architect's heritage.
