Screening “Le Corbusier on Camera. The Unknown films of Ernest Weissmann”

These unique amateur films, captured with a Pathé Motocamera, document previously unseen moments from life in the studio of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, as well as the many friendships maintained with Josep Lluís Sert, Charlotte Perriand, Norman Rice, Kunio Maekawa, Sigfried Giedion, and others. The images taken from the film reels are identified and carefully placed back into the historical and personal context of Le Corbusier’s life.

This screening will open a discussion on the historical significance and the contemporary resonance of the architect’s work within the context of an architectural practice, its organization, its production, and its network.

For this occasion, the QBM space will be transformed into an exhibition venue, partially revisiting film stills and photographs by Weissmann that were presented in 2017 at Maison La Roche.

Véronique Boone is a Belgian architect-engineer who graduated from Ghent University and holds a PhD in the history of architecture from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille (ENSAPL) in France and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium. Her doctoral thesis was titled Le Corbusier and Cinema: Communicating an Architectural Work.

An associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta at ULB, she teaches the history and theory of architecture as well as the conservation of twentieth-century architecture. Her research focuses on the history of modern architecture, and she has published numerous articles in academic journals on Le Corbusier and the mediation of architecture through cinema and television.

She has worked on several exhibitions as a curator and/or contributor to exhibition catalogues, including Lucien Hervé, l’œil de l’architecte at CIVA in 2005, Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography at the Musée des beaux-arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 2012, L’Architecture moderne à l’écran at the Cinematek in Brussels in 2014, In the Studio at 35, rue de Sèvres: an Amateur Cameraman’s Informal View at the Fondation Le Corbusier in 2017, and Atelier Jespers in 2018. In 2024 she published Le Corbusier on Camera: The Unknown Films of Ernest Weissmann. She is also vice-president of DOCOMOMO Belgium.