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.
- 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