Commitees of Experts

At the initiative of the Board of Directors, this committee was created in 2022 in order to evaluate the actions carried out by the Foundation to support research on Le Corbusier. The committee also reflects on new strategies and partnerships to be put in place to better support the research in France and abroad.

This committe is composed of :

• Juan Calatrava, professor of history and architecture, Universidad de Granada, President of the « Asociación de Historiadores de la Arquitectura y Urbanismo (AhAU) ».
• Jean-Louis Cohen, historian of architecture and urbanism, architect.
• Marida Talamona, professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Università degli studi Roma Tre.
• Arnaud Dercelles, head of the resource ad research center of the Foundation Le Corbusier, represents the Foundation.
• Other researchers can be involved.

The aesthetic, historical and scientific value of Le Corbusier’s drawings makes them an exceptionally rich corpus. The Foundation has decided to create an exhaustive catalogue of Le Corbusier’s drawings, under the scientific direction of Danièle Pauly.

In 2020, a first volume covering the period of the early drawings (1902-1916) was published by Maurice Culot (AAM Editions), followed in 2022 by a second volume presenting the purist works (1917-1928). Two other volumes are in preparation.

Scientific Committee

• Timothy Benton, art historian, honorary professor at the Open University of London
• Christian Derouet, chief curator of heritage
• Françoise de Franclieu, honorary curator of heritage, former curator at the Foundation Le Corbusier
• Nadine Lehni, chief curator of heritage
• Rainer Michael Mason, honorary curator of the print cabinet of the Museum of Art and History of Geneva
• Éric Mouchet, architect
• Danièle Pauly, art historian, honorary professor at the Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-val-de-Seine, author of the Catalogue
• Bruno Reichlin, architect and historian, professor honoris causa, Accademia di Architettura de Mendrisio.
• Stanislaus von Moos, art historian emeritus at the University of Zürich.

Inventory Committee

• Timothy Benton, art historian, honorary professor at the Open University of London
• Françoise de Franclieu, honorary curator of heritage, former curator at the Foundation Le Corbusier
• Nadine Lehni, chief curator of heritage
• Danièle Pauly, art historian, honorary professor at the Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-val-de-Seine, author of the Catalogue
• Patricia Sekler, art historian, honorary professor, Cambridge University, United States of America.

The Foundation, as part of its moral rights, intervenes in all projects relating to Le Corbusier’s architectural work, with various experts to advise owners, managers and inhabitants on restoration projects :

• Bénédicte Gandini, architect of the Foundation and coordinator of the working groups
• Bernard Bauchet, architect
• Jean-Louis Cohen, architect, historian, professor at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts
• Marie-Jeanne Dumont, architect, historian, professor at l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville
• Roberto Gargiani, architect, professor of architectural history at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Franz Graf, architect, associate professor, architecture section at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Gilles Ragot, historian, professor at the Université of Bordeaux
• Bruno Reichlin, architect, professor emeritus at the University of Geneva
• Maria Salerno, architect, MA of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Malaquais
• Jacques Sbriglio, architect
• Philippe Prost, architect, professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation.
• Yamana Yoshiyuki, professor of architecture at the Tokyo University of Science
• Arthur Ruëgg, architect and professor emeritus at the Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.