Jose Luis Sert "I can not say much thing "'s, but I mean I am pleased to be here ~.

I saw / e beginning of this building and taut if that, here, once thing, an astonishing work of the Corbusier. What strikes me the most is that I have seen many prefabricated things, testing more or less unhappy in world. .. and Ia is the first time I see a building - finally, a building - quite dry mounted, with pieces of this type, / a, which is really a quality w / ... scrubs and thanks to Mrs. Weber this thing is here " (Speech pronunc1ate Inaugurazione alia: brano stenogralato) Claudius Petit ". .. Sino us are happy, as Serves said just now, there have Centre over a house Moreover, construction of more than one Le Corbusier, it is because each Le Corbusier's work maintains dialogue with those undefined living in Ia or discover; this work is never a dead work. A work Le Corbusier is a work that wine which is responsible for intentions, which carries a message, a message for us to decipher " (Speech pronunciate Inaugurazione alia: brano stenogralato) una dichiarazlone degll archltetti A. Taves e R. Rebutato "Today the building has oil to ~ be inaugurated, we consider it appropriate,

who attended from / origin, a / 'Workshop 35 rue de Sevres, Ia birth and / development of this project, and having had Ia Ia joy and satisfaction / e rea / ize, to make our testimony. II remember that taut / culmination of this work comes from plut6 / ENAMELLED standard e / see in rev ~ ment on outside walls March; masonry. From the moment oil appeared elements of industrialized / ISES, Le Corbusier came to nature / parliaments to use the principle of 226 x 226 x 226-frame meta / Ifque, he considered particularly appropriate housing programs thanks to its size, Facilities for industrialization and Ia simpllcite implementation out. During the years 1964-1965, Le Corbusier, assists Oubrerie Jose, and Robert Rebutato has working a / analysis of elements incorporation and a definition of Ia assembly, giving a / nsf the Actual project completion. Although El / e is / application of ideas in / 'earlier work Le Corbusier, is what has this gr his research about /, una fools in addition, has a work novatrlce. Le Corbusier, before his death, avalt unable to complete any architectural design Ia the Mtiment. Because the administrative requirements of Ia Zurich, the fondatlons swallow been entreprlses by the Zurich architect Boeslger before me that ~ m

not made fot Ia technical development the project. In July 1965, Le Corbusier approved Execution Plans toft-umbrella, which etalt mls manufacturing in / 'hlver 1965-1966. When Mrs. H. Weber did appal at our workshop in spring 1966, all drawings and Ia development of manufacturing with / Es companies remained. In order not to waste time, we started building Ia parallel / no way in our study, second on / e project by architect Swiss / ten. This study has need of execution a long and diffi / e, the because of technical non traditionnelfes and our desire to impose Ia in implementing the requirements which were particularly / a The Logan Club Corbusier. Taut II, in this respect, thank Mr. Fruitet, lngenieurCouncil of Paris, which followed of the project / origin and that if Ia taut assign any stat / as metal parts of the building, and Jean Prouve, has always supported us in our work. For / 'spirit of the project will sub / sse any alteration, we were necessary to ensure dialogue with / es business as well as on site / Es / ETTER manufacturing. In addition, we had to solve some details of which archltecture do not swallow yet been arr ~ your:

- The polychromatic far, ades, which was determined from Ia composition elements of glazing and windows and range of co Ia / oris, impose by Le Corbusier. - The ramp / stairs, Ia terrace Ia boiler and chimney for Lesquer / s we only had plans in principle. - The choice of floor coverings indoor and outdoor, a / exception Slate on the ground floor. - The lighting system for / equal n'avlons us any indication. By him / their, according to / orientation nouvelfe the program, we were forced to change entilirement / E in-so / and to bring Lumilire natural Ia / e, in order to make usable. Ia m ~ for me because, of changes were made to partitioning and mobility / I, while respecting the design principles left by / Workshop Le Corbusier. Sauls have been executed / equipment are of / 'model apartment, the This is only one element of exposure, that will be realized ulterleurement. All of these decisions has always rer, u / approval of Mrs. H. Weber whose dynamism and Ia determination allowed us to overcome all / es difficu / your. We regret seu / no way that some differences of view, at the time finishes, / 'pipe alent has some changes in equipment, and special / ierement has to realize Ia piece of outdoor water. If this is not true that no Moln

of our efforts would have had to issue without his determination and loyalty Ia a memory of Le Corbusier. We believe that our long reports our Ma1tre and with his work allowed us to not betray him, and / e desire that we given to respect his ideas allows to demonstrate that Ia / industrialization is not incompatible Ia with plastic. Anyone familiar with Le Corbusier can / e found in Ia accuracy of the proportions in Ia wealth of Ia in / ychromie in Ia rigor of cubic volumes opif nella modello ----.. C. .- ... 1. , __ _ _, .. ,./_,.._,... l .,.,..._.. . B.lil '! FiiJIO ."-----------