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Le Corbusier, byname of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887 – 1965), was an internationally influential Swiss architect and city planner whose designs combined the modern movement’s functionalism with bold, sculptural expressionism. He belonged to the first generation of the so-called International school of architecture and was their most able propagandist in his numerous writings.
Villa Savoye, completed in 1931 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Poissy, France, is a landmark in modern architecture and a defining example of the International style. It is…
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Le Corbusier designed the House, commissioned by Dr. Pedro Curutchet in 1948. It is one of the very few buildings the architect built attached to preexisting buildings and perfectly responded…
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Completed in 1955 by the Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, the Ronchamp Chapel or “Notre Dame du Haut” is one of the most radical designs of Le Corbusier’s late style. Located…
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The National Museum of Western Art, designed by Le Corbusier, was the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The Museum is located in…
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Le Corbusier designed Sainte Marie de La Tourette Monastery in 1960 for a Dominican Order priory near Lyon, France. The Dominican Order convent sinks into the edge of a forest…
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To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which…
