Architects and Designers
Le Corbusier
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Also Known As Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
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Swiss French architect, painter and polemicist, 1887 to 1965, born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, the most influential and most contested architect of the twentieth century. He gave modernism its five points and its slogans, a house is a machine for living in, built Villa Savoye, the Unite d'Habitation, Ronchamp and the capitol of Chandigarh, and his urban visions of towers in parkland shaped, for better and worse, the postwar city.
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Defining ContributionThe five points of a new architecture and the theory of the modern city 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The style's name comes from his beton brut, the raw concrete of the Unite d'Habitation.
Le Corbusier was a principal founder of CIAM and remained a leading member until his 1955 departure.
Le Corbusier was a principal convener of CIAM's founding congress in 1928.
Le Corbusier authored the 1942 published Charter, substantially rewriting the 1933 congress findings around his own Ville Radieuse concept.
His Modulor system of measures is built deliberately on the golden ratio and the human figure.
Le Corbusier devised and published the Modulor proportion system.
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With his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret.
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