The Drawings

Le Corbusier’s late work is permeated by the idea of a “Synthesis of the Arts.” In the pilgrimage church at Ronchamp and in the parliament building in Chandigarh, for example, there are large enamel murals that the artist-architect used to heighten the impression of the grand entrance portals.
In Zurich, the main and service entrances are hidden on opposite sides of a 226-centimeter spatial module. In order to make this zone more prominent, owner Heidi Weber had a reproduction of an “Ubu” attached to the front of the building, a scratch drawing in white on black from her portfolio Série Panurge, published in 1961. The Ronchamp-inspired pivot door on the south side of the building is also enlivened with reproductions of Le Corbusier’s works: inside is the 1963 ink drawing Taureau, from Weber’s own collection, and outside the lithograph Os 2, published in 1964 in an edition of 150.