Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
- Introduction
- Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (UK: lə kor-BEW-zee-ay, US: lə KOR-boo-ZYAY, -SYAY, French: [lə kɔʁbyzje]), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America. 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 prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several buildings there, especially the government buildings. On 17 July 2016, 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.Le Corbusier remains a controversial figure. Some of his urban planning ideas have been criticized for their indifference to pre-existing cultural sites, societal expression and equity, and his ties with fascism, antisemitism and the dictator Benito Mussolini have resulted in some continuing contention.
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- Q4724
- Introduction
- Born 6 October 1887; died 27 August 1965. Born as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, he adopted the pseudonym "Le Corbusier" in 1920, to be used when he was active as an architect and theorist; he used the pseudonym for his paintings from ca. 1930. It derived from his maternal grandfather's name, "Lecorbésier." He emigrated to France in 1917 and was naturalized in 1930. Born into a family of horologists and enamelers, he studied at École d'Art in Chaux-de-Fonds, but was largely self-taught in painting and architecture through study trips. In the 1920s he emerged as the most important architect of the "International Style" in France. He established the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris to care for and make available to scholars his library, architectural drawings, sketches, and paintings.
- Nationalities
- Swiss, French
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Author, Architect, Writer, Urban Planner, Designer, Painter, Sculptor, Theorist
- Names
- Le Corbusier, Corbusier, Charles Édouard Jeanneret, Charles Edouard Jeanneret, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Charles Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, Charles Edouard Jeanneret- Gris, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, Eduard Le Corbusier, Le Corbusier-Saugnier, Corb, Corbu, Le Corbusier Jeanneret, Charles Edouard Jenneret, Charles Édouard Jeanneret- Gris, Edouard le Corbusier, Kebiyi, Korubyujie, Le Korbi︠u︡zʹe, Lu Kūrbūziyah, Ru Korubyujie, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
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Exhibitions
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Taking a Thread for a Walk
Oct 21, 2019–Jan 10, 2021
MoMA
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417: Architecture Systems
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
Jul 15, 2018–Jan 13, 2019
MoMA
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How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior
Oct 1, 2016–Apr 23, 2017
MoMA
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Latin America in Construction: Architecture
1955–1980 Mar 29–Jul 19, 2015
MoMA
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) has
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Bol, Pipes, et Papiers Enroulés (Cup, Pipes, and Paper Rolls) 1919
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Still Life 1920
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) L'Esprit Nouveau letterhead (Letter to Naum Gabo from Paul Dermée) 1920
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Still Life with Objects 1923
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Alfred Roth, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Bed Frame 1927
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Les Terrasses, Villa Stein-de-Monzie, Garches, France 1926–1928 (model 1970)
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Chaise Longue (LC/4) 1928
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Armchair with a Tilting Back (Siège à Dossier Basculant) 1928
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Urban projects for Montevideo and São Paulo, Brazil. Aerial perspectives 1929
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Palace of the League of Nations, project, Geneva, Switzerland, Ground floor and site plan, second scheme 1929
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) "Ceci n'est pas l'architecture" Drawing from Buenos Aires Lecture 1929
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France 1932
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Palace of the Soviets, Moscow 1932
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Swiss Pavilion, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, Paris, France, Side elevation 1932
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Swiss Pavilion, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, France, Perspective of north and west elevations 1932
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Swiss Pavilion, Cité Universitaire, Paris, France 1930-32
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Plans for Algiers and Barcelona and “cité-jardin verticale” (vertical garden city) drawing made during a lecture in Chicago November 27, 1935 1935
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Le Corbusier, Oeuvre Plastique 1919-1937 1937
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Tableaux et Architecture - Exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich 1938
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Le Corbusier letterhead 1938
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Lucio Costa, Carlos Leão, Jorge Machado Moreira, Oscar Niemeyer, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Ernani Vasconcelos, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1937–1942
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Sand cast 1951
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United Nations Headquarters Board of Design, Wallace K. Harrison, Max Abramovitz, Oscar Niemeyer, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Façade from the United Nations Secretariat Building, New York, New York 1952
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Œuvre Plastique 1953 1953
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Muralnomad Tapestry ‘Les Musiciennes’ 1953
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Mill Owners Association Building, Ahmedabad, India 1951-1954
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Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), ATBAT Kitchen from the Unité d'Habitation, Marseille, France c.1952
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Maison Curutchet, La Plata, Argentina 1949–1954
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp 1950–1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Le Corbusier - Poeme de L'Angle Droit 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Double page title (pages 2 and 3) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Plate (page 7) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Table of contents (page 8) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Headpiece (page 9) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Ornament (page 10) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Chapter title (page 11) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) In-text plate (page 13) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) In-text plate (page 14) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) In-text plate (page 15) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Tailpiece (page 16) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Plate (page 17) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Chapter title (page 19) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) In-text plate (page 21) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) In-text plate (page 22) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Plate (page 23) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) In-text plate (page 24) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Plate (page 25) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) 1947–53, published 1955
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