Le Corbusier(Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

“MASTER OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE”

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

NAME: Le Corbusier

OCCUPATION: Architect, Artist

BIRTH DATE: October 06, 1887

DEATH DATE: August 27, 1965

EDUCATION: École des Arts 

Décoratifs at La Chaux-de-Fonds

PLACE OF BIRTH: La Chaux-de-

Fonds, Switzerland

PLACE OF DEATH: Cap Martin, 

France

FULL NAME: Le Corbusier

AKA: Charles Jeanneret-Gris

ORIGINALLY: Charles-Edouard 

Jeanneret-Gris

INFORMATION

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BIOGRAPHY

 Was a Swiss architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of thepioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International style. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in his thirties. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout central Europe, India, Russia, and one each in North and South America.

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• He was born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small city in Neuchâtel canton in north-western Switzerland.

• Le Corbusier was attracted to the visual arts and studied at the La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School under Charles

• L'Eplattenie• . His architecture teacher in the Art School was the

architect• René Chapallaz• In 1908, He studied architecture in Vienna with Josef

Hoffmann.• Between October 1910 and March 1911, he worked near

Berlin for the renowned architect Peter Behrens, where he might have met

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.

Life

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Modulor Le Corbusier utiliza explícitamente la proporción áurea en su sistema Modulor parala escala de proporción arquitectónica. Vio a este sistema comocontinuación de la larga tradición de Vitruvio, de Leonardo da Vinci" Hombre de Vitruvio " , la obra de Leon Battista Alberti, y otros que utilizando las proporciones del cuerpo humano para mejorar el aspecto yfunción de la arquitectura.

Furniture

• Corbusier said: "Chairs are

architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

• Le Corbusier began experimenting with

furniture design in 1928 after inviting

the architect, Charlotte Perriand, to join

his studio

Major buildings and projects

 is a house located in La Chaux-de-

Fonds, Switzerland designed by noted 

architect Le Corbusier. It was his first 

commission as an architect at the age of 

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Villa Fallet

Villa savoye. designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanerette in 1923-1925 No longer inhabited, they house the Fondation Le Corbusier museum and archives

Curuchet house  is a building by Le Corbusier. It was commissioned by Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet, a surgeon, in 1948 and included a small medical office on the first floor. The house consists of four main levels with a courtyard between the house and the clinic

Art museum in JapanThe museum to house the collection Matsukata was commissioned the Swiss-French le corbusier in 1955, was later built in 1958 and completed in 1959 by Shimizu Corporation

Notre dame des champs ChurchThe chapel of Notre Dame da Haut in Ronchamp (French: Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp), completed in 1954, is one of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier and one of the most important examples of twentieth-century religious architecture.

 The convent of LyonLe Corbusier's design of the building began in May, 1953 with sketches drawn at Arbresle, France outlining the basic shape of the building and terrain of the site.[1] La Tourette is considered one of the more important buildings of the late Modernist style.