Le Corbusier

Went to La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland to see an exhibition celebrating the 125th anniversary of the birth of the architect and photographer known as Le Corbusier.
He was best known for his then ultra modern designs, the shape of his buildings and the innovative use of use of materials, notably concrete.
He is perhaps most famous [or even infamous according to some current thinking] for his radical approach to town planning and high density housing, involving the clearance of 'medieval' slums and their replacement with tower blocks and similar estates.
A keen photogapher in his youth, he quickly realised the value of the visual media in promoting and marketing himself, his ideas and his designs. Accordingly he employed full time photographers using both still and movie cameras. M. Herve, one of his closest collaborators in this regard is shown with him in the blip.
Although we got some excellent pictures of wet, bedraggled cows as we drove back through the pouring rain in the mountains, Le Corbusier triumphed in the end!