“not all citizens could become leaders. The technocratic elite, the industrialists, financiers, engineers, and artists would be located in the city centre, while the workers would be removed to the fringes of the city”
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French-speaking Swiss parents and acquired French nationality in 1930. He designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and the Americas during a five-decade career. He considered that "the roots of modern architecture are to be found in Viollet-le-Duc."
culture · Swiss-French architect (1887–1965) · also Le Corbusier, Corbusier
Born 6 October 1887 · Died 27 August 1965 · Q4724
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It is an architectural symphony which surpasses all my hopes, which flashes and develops under the light in a way which is unimaginable and unforgettable. From far, from up close, it provokes astonishment; all made with raw concrete and a cement cannon. Adorable, and grandiose. In all the centuries no one has seen that.
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“It is an architectural symphony which surpasses all my hopes, which flashes and develops under the light in a way which is unimaginable and unforgettable. From far, from up close, it provokes astonishment; all made with raw concrete and a cement cannon. Adorable, and grandiose. In all the centuries no one has seen that.”
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“The centre of Paris, currently threatened with death, threatened by exodus, is, in reality, a diamond mine...To abandon the centre of Paris to its fate is to desert in face of the enemy.”
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Artnet: Le Corbusier
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Domus Web: The best architect-designed homes for sale this summer, from Le Corbusier to Frank Lloyd Wright
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ELLE Decor: Bofill, en 1976: "Le Corbusier ha muerto; Antoni Gaudí es el talento y la genialidad"
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Unité d'Habitation / Le Corbusier - 3
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ArchDaily: Galería de El último edificio diseñado por Le Corbusier, abre sus puertas al público en Zúrich - 22
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ArchDaily: Galería de Lejos de la vieja arquitectura: lo que Le Corbusier realmente quiso decir - 2
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ArchDaily: Galería de Maison Guiette: El enclave modernista de Le Corbusier en Amberes, Bélgica - 1
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Arquitectura y Diseño: El efecto Le Corbusier: por qué seguimos viviendo en la casa que él imaginó hace un siglo (y sigue funcionando)
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ArchDaily: Galería de Fundación Norman Foster ofrece refugio para el automóvil de Le Corbusier - 11
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Plan Maestro para Chandigarh / Le Corbusier - 49
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Casas 14 y 15 de la Weissenhof-Siedlung / Le Corbusier + Pierre Jeanneret - 16
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Ronchamp / Le Corbusier - 15
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ArchDaily: Galería de Video: Convent de la Tourette / Le Corbusier - 1
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ArchDaily: Galería de Exposición “Experimentando Le Corbusier” - reinterpretando los cánones modernos - 2
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ArchDaily: Galería de Le Corbusier a color - 5
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Sortir à Paris: Matali Crasset at the Villa Savoye in Poissy: "the moment of upheaval" takes hold at Le Corbusier
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Pabellón Philips Expo 58 / Le Corbusier & Iannis Xenakis - 1
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ArchDaily: Galería de Congreso LC 2015: Le Corbusier 50 años después / España - 1
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ArchDaily: Galería de Le Corbusier, en perspectiva - 4
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ArchDaily: Galería de Exposición 'Le Corbusier visitado' - 1
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ArchDaily: Ciudades del futuro: de la Ciudad Radiante de Le Corbusier a la "Ciudad que respira 2050" neerlandesa
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ArchDaily: “Experimenting Le Corbusier” Exhibition - Reinterpreting Modern Canons
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ArchDaily: Le Corbusier y el modernismo brasileño: se inaugura la exposición ABERTO4 en la Maison La Roche de París
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de la Arquitectura: Edificio de la Asociación de Propietarios de Molinos / Le Corbusier - 2
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Seventeen projects by Le Corbusier in seven countries were inscribed in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites as The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
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A Palace of Congresses for Strasbourg (1962–65) and a hospital in Venice (1961–1965), which were never built
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By the art historian Bevis Hillier for a catalogue of an exhibition on the style, and in 1968 in the title of a book, Art Deco of the 20s and 30s
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In a ceremony held in his atelier on rue de Sèvres, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur by Culture Minister André Malraux
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In the same year as the dedication of the Palace of the Assembly in Chandigarh, the first retrospective exhibit on his work was held at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris
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Le Corbusier began a third religious building, the Church of Saint Pierre in the new town of Firminy-Vert, where he had built a Unité d'Habitation and a cultural and sports centre
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Published a new book, L'Atelier de la recherché patiente The workshop of patient research), simultaneously published in four languages
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Expanded it with 20 new shades, bringing the total number of colors to 63
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A successful international campaign was launched to have his Villa Savoye, threatened with demolition, declared a historic monument; it was the first time that a work by a living architect had received this distinction
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Collaborated with the composer Edgar Varèse on a work called Le Poème électronique, a show of sound and light, for the Philips Pavilion at the International Exposition in Brussels
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And his mother, to whom he was closely attached, died in 1960
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Published Poéme de l'angle droit, a portfolio of lithographs, published in the same collection as the book Jazz by Henri Matisse
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Was made a Commander of the Légion d'Honneur in a ceremony held on the roof of his new building
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By Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and invited to propose a project
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Replaced this with a colourful mural he painted himself
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For a city of 150,000 inhabitants, but the Indian government wanted a grander and more monumental city
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And became an influential text for city planners in the 1950s and 1960s
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Founded a new association of modern architects and builders, the Ascoral, the Assembly of Constructors for a renewal of architecture, but there were no projects to build
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He wrote to his mother in October 1940, as the Vichy government enacted anti-Jewish laws: "The Jews are having a bad time.
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To discuss public housing and was scheduled to meet in the United States in 1939, but the meeting was cancelled because of the war
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Le Corbusier made his first visit to the United States
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In 1934, after Lagardelle had obtained a position at the French embassy in Rome, he arranged for Le Corbusier to lecture on architecture in Italy.
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Was invited to take part in an international competition for the new Palace of the Soviets in Moscow, which was to be built on the site of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, demolished on Stalin's orders
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Introduced a carefully selected palette of 43 colors intended for specific architectural contexts
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Developed a visionary plan for another city Algiers, then part of France
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In Brussels by Victor Bourgeois on the topic "Rational methods for groups of habitations"
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The trio prepared the "House fittings" section for the Decorative Artists Exhibition and asked for a group stand, renewing and widening the 1928 avant-garde group idea
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Travelled to Brazil where he gave conferences on his architectural ideas
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Le Corbusier took a major step toward establishing modernist architecture as the dominant European style
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Following the publication of his theories, he began experimenting with furniture design
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Invited the architect Charlotte Perriand to join his studio as a furniture designer
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Received a commission from the Soviet government to construct the headquarters of the Tsentrosoyuz, or central office of trade unions, a large office building whose glass walls alternated with plaques of stone
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In Une Maison, un Palais, he described it: "Arab architecture gives us a precious lesson: it is best appreciated in walking, on foot
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The French Minister of Labour, Louis Loucheur, won the passage of French law on public housing, calling for the construction of 260,000 new housing units within five years
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Was invited by the German Werkbund to build three houses in the model city of Weissenhof near Stuttgart, based on the Citrohan House and other theoretical models he had published
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And co-authored by his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret
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Le Corbusier, Pierre Chareau and others proposed the foundation of an international conference to establish the basis for a common style
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Entered the competition for the construction of a headquarters for the League of Nations in Geneva with a plan for an innovative lakeside complex of modernist white concrete office buildings and meeting halls
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Le Corbusier received the opportunity he had been looking for; he was commissioned by a Bordeaux industrialist, Henry Frugès, a fervent admirer of his ideas on urban planning, to build a complex of worker housing, the Ci
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Between 1925 and 1928, Le Corbusier had connections to Le Faisceau, a short-lived French fascist party led by Georges Valois (Valois later became an anti-fascist).
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Le Corbusier combined a series of articles about decorative art from L'Esprit Nouveau into a book, L'art décoratif d'aujourd'hui (The Decorative Art of Today)
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Collected his essays from L'Esprit Nouveau published his first and most influential book, Towards an Architecture
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Had presented his model of the Ville Contemporaine, a city of three million inhabitants, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris
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Presented his plan for the Ville Contemporaine, a model city for three million people, whose residents would live and work in a group of identical sixty-story tall apartment buildings surrounded by lower zig-zag apart
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And 1923, Le Corbusier devoted himself to advocating his new concepts of architecture and urban planning in a series of polemical articles published in L'Esprit Nouveau
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And his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, a fellow architect and furniture designer, opened a studio in Paris at 35 rue de Sèvres
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Charles-Edouard Jeanneret adopted Le Corbusier (an altered form of his maternal grandfather's name, Lecorbésier) as a pseudonym, reflecting his belief that anyone could reinvent themselves
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Le Corbusier met the Cubist painter Amédée Ozenfant, in whom he recognised a kindred spirit
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And in 1920 founded their journal L'Esprit Nouveau
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And began his architectural practice with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret (1896–1967), a partnership that would last until the 1950s, with an interruption in the World War II years
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Began his most ambitious project yet: a new house for his parents, also located on the forested hillside near La-Chaux-de-Fonds
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Traveled again with his friend August Klipstein for five months; this time he journeyed to the Balkans and visited Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece, as well as Pompeii and Rome, filling nearly 80 sketchbooks with
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“Habitation concept was inspired by the visit he had made to the Florence Charterhouse at Galluzzo in Italy, in 1907 and 1910 during his early travels. He wanted to recreate, he wrote, an ideal place”
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And two other students, under the supervision of their teacher, René Chapallaz, designed and built his first house, the Villa Fallet, for the engraver Louis Fallet, a friend of his teacher Charles L'Eplattenier
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