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Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965) was the pseudonym of Charles Edouard Jeanneret. He was an architect famous for what is now called the International Style[?], along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Theo van Doesburg[?].

He was born in Switzerland but moved to Paris at the age of 29 and adopted "Le Corbusier", his maternal grandfather's name, as a pseudonym. He usually wore big round black glasses.

Key buildings

1928 - Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine[?], France
1945 - Unité d'Habitation de Marseille[?], Marseille, France
1950 - Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut[?], Ronchamp[?], France
1952-1959 - Buildings in Chandigarh, India
- 1952 - Haute Cour[?]
- 1952 - Musée et Galerie d'Art[?]
- 1953 - Secrétariat[?]
- 1953 - Club Nautique[?]
- 1955 - Assemblée[?]
- 1959 - Ecole d'Art[?]
1961 - Carpenter Visual Arts Center[?], Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

see also architecture

External link

Fondation Le Corbusier - official website (http://www.fondationlecorbusier.asso.fr/)

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