Le Corbusier had designed a gymnasium for Baghdad, but the commission had been cancelled before his death. This posthumous building was finally achieved and inaugurated in 1980, but it fell into oblivion in the West. The paper addresses the circumstances of the discovery of the construction archives.
Le Corbusier avait dessiné un gymnase pour Bagdad, mais la commande avait été interrompue. Le bâtiment posthume, finalement inauguré en 1980, avait été oublié en Occident. L'article relate la découverte récente des archives de sa construction.