Swiss French architect, painter and polemicist, 1887 to 1965, born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, the most influential and most contested architect of the twentieth century. He gave modernism its five points and its slogans, a house is a machine for living in, built Villa Savoye, the Unite d'Habitation, Ronchamp and the capitol of Chandigarh, and his urban visions of towers in parkland shaped, for better and worse, the postwar city.
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Defining ContributionThe five points of a new architecture and the theory of the modern city 1 Le Corbusier
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AIA Gold Medal recipient 1961
The style's name comes from his beton brut, the raw concrete of the Unite d'Habitation.
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Le Corbusier was a principal founder of CIAM and remained a leading member until his 1955 departure.
Le Corbusier was a principal convener of CIAM's founding congress in 1928.
Le Corbusier is a central figure of modernist architecture
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Awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1953.
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Le Corbusier authored the 1942 published Charter, substantially rewriting the 1933 congress findings around his own Ville Radieuse concept.
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His Modulor system of measures is built deliberately on the golden ratio and the human figure.
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Le Corbusier devised and published the Modulor proportion system.
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Aaltos early functionalist work, including the Paimio Sanatorium and Viipuri Library, shows direct Corbusian influence before he developed his own organic idiom.
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Niemeyer said his architecture was strongly influenced by Le Corbusier and worked with him on the Rio de Janeiro Ministry of Education building.
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Ando, largely self-taught, traveled to study buildings by masters including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Le Corbusier worked four months in Behrens' office in 1910 and 1911, alongside Mies van der Rohe and Gropius.
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Designed by Le Corbusier.
With his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: France, nationality there.
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- Influenced By: Peter Behrens
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Chandigarh Capitol Complex is a government compound designed by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his co-workers in Chandigarh, India.
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Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier
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