Présentation de l'éditeur :
In 1912 the 25-year-old architect
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret causes a sensation in La Chaux-de-Fonds,
Switzerland: the house he is building for his parents differs radically
from the other buildings in the city! The young man, who later came to
be known as Le Corbusier, now felt free for the first time in his life
to express with his own ideas: fiber-cemented roof, white facade…
In
May 2000, an association attends to the Maison blanche, which had been
run down by then, in order to restore it.
Swiss photographer
Eveline Perroud from La Chaux-de-Fonds accompanied
the project and forged strong ties to this place, as her photographs
clearly show. The richly illustrated book includes a text by the
architect Martin Veith and a conversation, held in Paris with Lucien
Hervé, who was the photographer of Le Corbusier.
After her apprenticeship in Zurich, photographer Eveline Perroud
(*1955 in St. Gallen) started her own studio in
La Chaux-de-Fonds,
where she lives. Beyond arcitecture and portraits, she photographs
mainly clocks and jewellery and works for several well-known magazines.
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