Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM).
Le Corbusier, internationally influential Swiss architect and city planner, whose designs combine the functionalism of the modern movement with a bold sculptural expressionism. He is best known for the buildings Villa Savoye, Colline Notre-Dame du Haut, and the Unite d’Habitation.
Le Corbusier is one of the major originators of the International Style, along with such contemporaries as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, with whom he once worked, among many others.
Le Corbusier, born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, was a revolutionary architect and a pioneer of modern architecture.
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Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ideas, designs, and writings radically reinvented not only individual structures but entire concepts of modern living.
Le Corbusier’s emphasis on the purity of geometric form and revolutionary work in reinforced concrete still loom large within the field of architecture today. He was also a visual artist, producing work ranging from Cubist paintings to figurative tapestries.
It is the result of joint work by Germany, Argentina, Belgium, France, India, Japan and Switzerland. This is a transnational inscription. The seventeen sites that make up the series constitute a relevant entity with respect to the influence of Le Corbusier’s work in the world.