Photography and modern architecture: a distinctive narrative from Spain

摘要

In 1928, Le Corbusier was invited to the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. His letter of acceptance ended with the postscript: 'I am sending you some photos. In 1936, Richard Neutra's secretary asked the Director of the avant-garde magazine AC Docu-mentos de Actividad Contemporanea: 'Did you receive the set of photographs that we sent?'. Jose Antonio Coderch's letter to the Dutchman Van der Grinten in 1952 stated that: 'I am including a list of architects whom you can address in order to request photographs of their work.'3 And in 1955, Alberto Sartoris reminded Rafael Aburto: 'I want to inform you that the second edition of the first volume of my Encyclopedie de /'Architecture Nou-velle will soon be out. I would like to publish some of your work and I am taking the liberty to remind you that you once promised me photographs.