Le Corbusier on Camera: The Unknown Films of Ernest Weissmann

About Veronique Boone

Veronique Boone is an architect from the University of Ghent Belgium and doctor from the École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture et de Paysage de Lille (ENSAPL) France and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium. She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta at the ULB. She lectures on architectural history and theory as well as on the conservation of 20th-century architecture. Her research focuses on the history and theory as well as the construction history of modern architecture. She has published extensively in academic publications on Le Corbusier and the mediation of architecture by film and television and is a correspondant for Belgian and international architectural magazines on contemporary architecture. She has worked on several exhibitions as curator and/or contributor to catalogues among them Lucien Hervé loeil de larchitecte CIVA 2005; Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography Musée des beaux-arts La Chaux-de-Fonds 2012; LArchitecture modern à lécran Cinematek 2014; In the Studio at 35 rue de Sèvres: an Amateur cameramans Informal View Fondation Le Corbusier 2017 and Atelier Jespers 2018. She is also Vice-President of DOCOMOMO Belgium. Tamara Bjai Klarin is Senior Research Advisor at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. She graduated in architecture and received a PhD in History of Art at Zagreb. Her field of expertise is 20th-century urban planning and architectural history with a focus on knowledge exchange and public engagement by architects. She authored the books Ernest Weissmann. Socially Engaged Architecture 1926-39 and Za bolji ljepi Zagreb! arhitektonski i urbanistiki natjeaji meuratnog Zagreba 1918-1941. She was an expert adviser for the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 19481980 MoMA 20182019. She has co-authored several TV broadcasts and documentaries on architecture produced by Croatian National Television (with Ana Marija Habjan). In 2014 she was an academic guest at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the ETH in Zurich.