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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
- 1961 - Carpenter Visual Arts Center[?], Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
see also architecture
- Fondation Le Corbusier - official website (http://www.fondationlecorbusier.asso.fr/)
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