par Boone, Véronique
Président du jury Brunfaut, Victor
Promoteur Van Essche, Eric
Co-Promoteur Klein, Richard
Publication Non publié, 2017-11-27
Thèse de doctorat
Résumé : The present study focuses on the cinematographic and television production of and on Le Corbusier, realized during his lifetime. Long ignored from photography and publishing as an instrument of communication for architecture and urban planning, this filmic work remains little known and recognized. The thesis is built in two parts: a catalogue volume of the filmic work, forming the corpus of the study, and a reflexive volume, which questions various aspects of creation and diffusion of this production.The first challenge of the thesis was to study the mass of archives relating to the various film projects in order to fill the gap of this aspect of Le Corbusier's production, to include it fully in his artistic production. The catalogue is the result of a transdisciplinary research, which required an investigation into three research domains: architecture, cinema and television, taking into account the specificities of each discipline. Each project or production of a documentary is described from its phase of intention to reception until its valorisation today, including technical data and contemporary references to films. This volume makes it possible to measure the importance of the quantity of cinematographic and televised documents that Le Corbusier undertook during his life or for which he was solicited. No other architect has been so frequently involved in documentary projects.The second research, reflexive, analyses the modalities of communication and representation of the architecture and urbanism of Le Corbusier through cinema and television. From crossing transdisciplinary theories - reception, diffusion, socio-economic, semiotic and rhetorical – with Le Corbusier's cinematographic and televised work, three hypotheses result: transmission, transposition and transcription.The study begins by questioning the mechanisms of transmission. By this is understood any mechanism of mediation of Le Corbusier through the documentaries - and by extension the television interviews. Crossing the results of the corpus with the theories of reception, diffusion and marketing, builds insights into the effectiveness or inefficiency of certain documentaries as tools for communication and even promotion.In a second stage, the knowledge about Le Corbusier's creation process, both in terms of the representation of architecture and in terms of the construction of discourse in cinematographic documentaries, is deepened. The principle of transposition begins with the observation that cinematographic documents maintain close links with their photographic contemporaries. The research uses semiotic theories to analyse how Le Corbusier composes with the imaginary and techniques of photography to design his film projects.The third principle, transcription, focuses on Le Corbusier's cinematographic argument. Here the analysis starts from the observation that Le Corbusier's writings on cinema and the thoughts he emanated, do not stick with the cinematographic reality and the necessities of a cinema of communication. His rhetoric in the cinema is analysed by taking the techniques described by the main theorists of rhetoric and compared to the examples from conferences and publications.This research allows to draw four conclusions. First of all, it turns out that film production is a very significant creative and functional production in Le Corbusier's work, which deserves to be valued. Then, reception by a large public, successful or not, seems intimately linked to the architect's efforts at the political level. Thirdly, Le Corbusier's way of promoting his work through film can be equated with marketing strategies. Finally, the analysis of the creative process of films has made it possible to understand the transversality of mediums, and to grasp even more the importance of a valorisation of this filmic work in the work of Le Corbusier.

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