Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

*6. 10. 1887La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
27. 8. 1965Roquebrune Cap Martin, France
8-10, square du Docteur Blanche, F-75016 Paris
+33 1 4288 4153
+33 1 4288 33 17
info@fondationlecorbusier.fr
Architecture is a scientific, precise, and magnificent game of volumes concentrated under the sun.







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Biography
1887 - 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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Realizations and projects

Vila Cook

Paris, 1926

Vila Plan

Paris, 1924

Lipchitz-Miestchaninoff Villa

Paris, 1923
Other buildings
Design of the Citrohan House, 1920 - embodies all five rules for modern architecture
Plan for a Contemporary City for three million inhabitants, 1922
Exhibition Pavilion L'Esprit Nouveau, Paris Salon, 1922
House for my own parents, by Lake Geneva, Switzerland, 1925
Villa of Michael Stein in Garches, 1926-27
Fateful competition design for the Palace of the League of Nations in Geneva, 1926-27
Palace of Centrosoyuz in Moscow, 1929-35
Urban planning projects for Rio de Janeiro, Algiers, and others, 1st half of the 1930s
Summer House in St. Cloud, 1934-35 - a precursor to brutalism
Plan for Buenos Aires, 1938
Initial work on the MODULOR, 1941 - attempts to establish an ideal relationship between the proportions of man and architecture
Unrealized plan for the urban center in Saint Dié, 1945-46
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 1961-64

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