Biography1887 - born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in the western Swiss canton of Neuchâtel
1900 - enrolls at the École des Arts Décoratifs in La Chaux-de-Fonds
1907-11 - travels in Central and Southeastern Europe
1917 - moves to Paris
1918 - meets painter Amédée Ozenfant, who introduces him to the aesthetics of purism
1920 - co-founds the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau, starting Le Corbusier's path as a painter and author of influential theoretical texts through his meetings with Ozenfant
1921 - opens studio at Sévres 35, collaborates with cousin Pierre Jeanneret
1928 - work trip to Moscow, active in the international organization of progressive architects (CIAM)
1928 - meeting in La Sarraz
1929 - lecture tour in South America
1933 - meeting in Athens - Athens Charter
1951 - commissioned for the project of the city of Chandigarh
1965 - dies on August 27 on the French Riviera (cardiac arrest)
Magazine Architect 22/97, page 65
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