Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier studying architectural plans and a small model of building in his office, Paris, 1946.
Born	October 6, 1887(1887-10-06) Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Died	August 27, 1965(1965-08-27) (aged 77) Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965), was an architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America.

Portraits

• Jeanneret family Corbusier 1889.jpg

  Jeanneret family, young Le Corbusier on the left, 1889.

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  Le Corbusier in front of the murals in Villa E1027 he designed for Jean Badovici and Eillen Gray, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, c1939.

• Le Corbusier Vichy's stadium, 1942.jpg

  At Vichy's stadium, 1942.

Selected works

• Villa Fallet, Switzerland, 1905.
• Villa Stotzer, Switzerland, 1907.
• Villa La Roche, Paris, France, 1923.
• Villas at Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart, 1927.
• Tsentrosoyuz, Moscow, 1928.
• Maison Errazuriz, Chile, 1930.
• Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, 1949.
• United Nations headquarters, New York City, 1952.
• Mill Owners' Association Building, Ahmedabad, India, 1951.
• National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1957.
• Philips Pavilion at the World Expositon Brussels, 1958.
• Center for Electronic Calculus, Olivetti, Milan, 1961.
• Church of Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France, designed in 1960, built posthumously and completed under José Oubrerie's guidance, 2006.

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  Villa Jeanneret-Perret, c1912.

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  Villa Le Lac at Corseaux on Lake Geneva, 1920s.

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  Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Radieuse, 1930s.

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  Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Savoye, 1935.

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  The roof of Cité Radieuse, the compact Marseille community Le Corbusier built from 1947-1952, in its former life as a gym.

Writings

• Étude sur le mouvement d’art décoratif en Allemagne, 1912. (in French)
• as Amédée Ozenfant, Après le cubisme, Paris, 1918. (in French)
  • Depois do cubismo, trans. Célia Euvaldo, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2005, 88 pp. (in Portuguese)
• Vers une architecture, Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. (in French)
  • Towards a New Architecture, London: John Rodker, 1931; New York: Dover, 1986, 320 pp.
  • Por uma arquitetura, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 5th ed., 1998. (in Portuguese)
• Urbanisme, Paris: Crès, 1924, 284 pp. (in French)
  • Le Ciudad del futuro, trans. E.L. Revol, 1962; 2nd ed., 1972; 3rd ed., Buenos Aires: Infinito, 1985. (in Spanish)
• with Paul Otlet and Pierre Jeanneret, Mundaneum, Brussels: Union des associations internationales, 1928, 46 pp. (in French)
• Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1930, 268 pp. (in French)
  • Precisões: sobre um estado presente da arquitetura e do urbanismo, trans. Carlos Eugênio Marcondes de Moura, São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2004, 296 pp. (in Portuguese)
• Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches. Voyage au pays des timides, Paris: Plon, 1937, 325 pp. (in French)
  • When the Cathedrals Were White, trans. Francis E. Hyslop, Jr., Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947; McGraw-Hill, 1964, 243 pp.
  • Cuando las catedrales eran blancas, trans. Julio E. Payró, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1948; 2nd ed., 1958, 294 pp. (in Spanish)
• with François de Pierrefeu, La maison des hommes, Paris, 1942, 211 pp. (in French)
• La Charte d'Athènes, Paris: Plon, 1943, 243 pp; Paris: Minuit, 1957. (in French)
  • A Carta de Atenas, trans. Rebeca Scherer, São Paulo: IIUCITEC/EDUSP, 1993. (in Portuguese)
• Les trois établissements humains, Paris: Denoël, 1945, 271 pp. (in French)
  • Os três estabelecimentos humanos, trans. Dora Maria de Aguiar Whitaker, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1976; 2nd ed., 1979. (in Portuguese)
• Le Modulor, Boulogne, 1950; 2nd ed., 1951, 240 pp. (in French)
  • El Modulor, trans. Rosario Vera, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1953; 2nd ed. 1961, 225 pp. (in Spanish)
  • O Modulor, trans. Marta Sequeira, Lisbon: Orfeu Negro, 2010. (in Portuguese)
• Le Modulor II (La parole est aux usagers), Boulogne, 1955, 344 pp. (in French)
  • Modulor 2, trans. Albert Junyent, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1962. (in Spanish)
• Entretien avec les étudiants des écoles d'architecture, Paris: Minuit, 1957. (in French)
  • Mensagem aos estudantes de arquitetura, trans. Rejane Janowitzer, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2005. (in Portuguese)
• Le poème électronique: Pavillon Philips pour l’Exposition Universelle de 1958, Paris: Minuit,‎ 1958, 244 pp. (in French)
• La Voyage d'Orient, Paris: Minuit, 1966, 174 pp. (in French)
  • El Viaje de oriente, 1984; 2nd ed., Valencia: Artes Graficas Soler, 1993, 188 pp. (in Spanish)

Collected works

• Le Corbusier: Complete Works in 8 Volumes, Vol. 1: 1910-1929, Vol. 2: 1929-1934, Vol. 3: 1934-1938, Vol. 4: 1938-1946, Vol. 5: 1946-1952, Vol. 6: 1952-1957, Vol. 7: 1957-1965, Vol. 8: The Last Works, eds. Willy Boesiger, Oscar Stonorov and Max Bill, Zurich: Les Éditions d’Architecture, 1930-70, 1708 pp. (in French/English/German)

Literature

• Geoffrey Baker, Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form, 1984; Taylor & Francis, 1996, 416 pp; 2001.
  • Le Corbusier: Analisis de la forma, trans. Santiago Castan, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1985; 6th ed., 1997. (in Spanish)
• Jacques Lucan, Le Corbusier: une encyclopédie, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987, 497 pp. (in French)
• William J.R. Curtis, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms, Phaidon, 1994.
• Mardges Bacon, Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid, MIT Press, 2001, 424 pp. [1]
• Kenneth Frampton, Le Corbusier, London: Thames and Hudson, 2001.
• Carol S. Eliel, Francoise Ducros, Tag Gronberg, L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001, 192 pp.
• Flora Samuel, Le Corbusier in Detail, Routledge, 2007, 264 pp.
• J. K. Birksted, Le Corbusier and the Occult, MIT Press, 2009, 416 pp.
• Nicola Pezolet, Spectacles Plastiques: Reconstruction and the Debates on the 'Synthesis of the Arts in France, 1944-1962, MIT, 2013. Ph.D. thesis.

Links

• Le Corbusier Foundation (in French)
• Le Corbusier at French Wikipedia