• Atelier Le Corbusier (draughtsman)
• Balkrishna V. Doshi (draughtsman)
• Sachi (draughtsman)
• Le Corbusier (architect)
• Chinubhai Chimanbhai (client)

Villa Chimanbhai: Design development prints and comparative study of first and final projects

before 20 April 1954

- Part of a larger group of reprographic copies and other works from the design development process of Le Corbusier's unexecuted Villa Chimanbhai project, acquired from the Chimanbhai family. Included are at least three series of copies -- some with annotated changes -- a model, photographs of a different model, cut-outs sent to the client which demonstrate changes in the size and plan of individual rooms, and related letters. The works were accessioned in the groups that they were received in.

• design development drawings
• presentation drawing (proposal)

Blueprints or diazotypes, some with coloured pencil and graphite

sheet (smallest; irreg.): 30 x 42,4 cm sheet (largest; irreg.): 71,8 x 91,2 cm

DR1990:0021:001-005

• line drawings

• plans (drawings)
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

- The edges of DR1990:0021:002 are ripped and folded. Other prints have old folds.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, on all the originals, in various locations: with plan no., title, date and notations; on most prints: with name of draughtsman and compass points; on some originals: with numbers keyed to a legend, and letters identifying sections [on plan] inscribed - on DR1990:0021:002, by the draughtsman or architect, in black ink, on the reprographic copy, u.r.: "corrigé le 20-9-54 L-C"; in graphite, c.: notations

• architecture