CIAM – Original blueprint by Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier 1955 EUR 2000,-

CIAM.- Original blueprint by Le Corbusier.

Concept for the 10th CIAM Congress in Algiers, with many corrections and deletions.

3 leaves. 27 x 21 cm.

EUR  2000

Top right with the handwritten address: Westerkade 34: The office address of the Dutch architect and CIAM member Jacob Berend „Jaap“ Bakema (1914 – 1981). Top left with the entry: Candilis [Georges Candilis 1913-1995] Le Corbusier mai 55.This planned congress in Algiers was never realized.

Provenance: Oswald Haerdtl (1899-1959) Haerdtl re-established the Austrian CIAM group, which had lost their representatives by the emigration of Josef Frank and Walter Loos before the war. He taught this consistently international, made intensive efforts to make contact with the exiled colleagues.

Provenance private property Austria.