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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.
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'''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.
  
==Life and work==
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==Selected works==
[[File:Family_Jeanneret_1889.jpg|thumb|250px|Jeanneret family, young Le Corbusier is on the left, 1889.]]
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<gallery>
[[File:Murals_and_Le_Corbusier_ca._1939.jpg|thumb|250px|Murals in Le Corbusier's Villa E1027 of Jean BAdovici and Eillen Gray, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, ca. 1939.]]
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Villa Jeanneret-Perret ca.1912.jpg|Villa Jeanneret-Perret, c1912.
He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. Young Jeanneret was attracted to the visual arts and studied watch engraving at the La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School, under Charles L’Eplattenier (1900). In 1904, he entered the Advanced Decorative Arts Course (based at the Art School) directed by Charles L’Eplattenier, who acquaintes Le Corbusier with architecture.
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Villa le Lac at Corseaux on Lake Geneva 1920s.jpg|Villa Le Lac at Corseaux on Lake Geneva, 1920s.
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Le_Corbusier_Pierre_Jeanneret_1928_Maison_Planeix.jpg|with Pierre Jeanneret, ''Maison Planeix'', 1928.
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Le_Corbusier_Pierre_Jeanneret_1930_Villa_Savoye.jpg|with Pierre Jeanneret, ''Villa Savoye'', 1930.
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Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Savoye 1935.jpg|Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Savoye, 1935.
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Le_Corbusier_with_a_model_of_Villa_Radieuse_1930s.jpg|Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Radieuse, 1930s.
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Corbusier_Le_c1939_Villa_E1027_murals.jpg|Le Corbusier in front of the murals in Villa E1027 he designed for [[Jean Badovici]] and Eillen Gray, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, c1939.
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Corbusier_Le_1950s_Cite_Radieuse_Marseilles.jpg|The roof of Cité Radieuse, the compact Marseille community Le Corbusier built from 1947-1952, in its former life as a gym.
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Le_Corbusier_1954_Chapelle_Notre_Dame_du_Haut.jpg|''Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut'', Ronchamp, 1955.
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</gallery>
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==Publications==
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[[Image:Corbusier_Le_Towards_a_New_Architecture.jpg|thumb|258px|''Towards a New Architecture'' [1923], 1927, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5192 Log].]]
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* ''Étude sur le mouvement d’art décoratif en Allemagne'', 1912. {{fr}}
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* {{a|JeanneretOzenfant1918}} [as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret], with Amédée Ozenfant, ''Après le cubisme'', Paris: Éditions des Commentaires, 1918, 60 pp; facs. repr., intro. Carlo Olmo, Torino: Bottega d'Erasmo, 1975. Outlines the aesthetic approach of Purism. {{fr}}
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** "After Cubism", trans. John Goodman, in ''L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925'', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001, pp 129-168. {{en}}
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** ''[[Media:Corbusier_Le_Depois_do_cubismo.pdf|Depois do cubismo]]'', intro. Carlos A. Ferreira Martins, trans. Célia Euvaldo, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2005, 88 pp. {{br-pt}}
  
A member of the Board of the Art School, Louis Fallet commissioned the young architect to design a villa (''Villa Fallet'') in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which he built in collaboration with the architect René Chapallaz. It was his first commission as an architect at the age of 17. It was completed in 1905. Now it is recognised as a building of cultural significance in Switzerland.
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* {{a|Corbusier1923}} ''Vers une architecture'', Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. {{fr}}
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** ''Kommende Baukunst'', trans. & ed. Hans Hildebrandt, Berlin/Stuttgart/Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags, 1926, xv+253 pp; new ed. as ''Ausblick auf eine Architektur'', rev. Eva Gärtner, Berlin: Ullstein, 1963, 215 pp. {{de}}
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5192 ''Towards a New Architecture''], London: John Rodker, 1927, xix+289 pp; London: Architectural Press, 1946, [http://openlibrary.org/books/OL192967M/ OL]; Praeger, 1970, [http://openlibrary.org/books/OL4911033M/ OL]; New York: Dover, 1986, 320 pp, [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=9741ad96ae642e02be7e6e50ce5b48cd-0 ARG]. {{en}}
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** ''Hacia una arquitectura'', trans. Luis A. Romero, Buenos Aires: El Distribuidor Americano, 1939, 208 pp. {{es}}
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** ''Verso una architettura'', trans. Pierluigi Cerri, Pierluigi Nicolin and Carlo Fioroni, Milan: Longanesi, 1973, xlii+246 pp. {{it}}
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** ''Por uma arquitetura'', São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1973. {{br-pt}}
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** ''Toward an Architecture'', intro. Jean-Louis Cohen, trans. John Goodman, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007, xiii+341 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=4tHX_xHEfC0C&printsec=frontcover] {{en}}
  
In September 1907, Le Corbusier took a trip to Italy for two and a half month (Milan, Florence etc.), and on his way back in Vienna he worked on the plans for the ''Stolzer'' and ''Jacquemet'' villas (La Chaux-de-Fonds). In Paris, he worked for Auguste and Gustave Perret as draughtsman, half-time (1908). In autumn 1909 he returned to La Chaux-de-Fonds to supervise construction of the Stotzer and Jacquemet villas.
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* ''Urbanisme'', Paris: Crès, 1924, 284 pp. {{fr}}
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** ''The City of To-morrow and its Planning'', trans. Frederick Etchells, London: John Rodker, 1929, xxvii+301 pp. Trans. of 8th FR ed. {{en}}
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** ''[[Media:Corbusier_Le_Le_ciudad_del_futuro_3a_ed.pdf|Le Ciudad del futuro]]'', trans. E.L. Revol, 1962; 2nd ed., 1972; 3rd ed., Buenos Aires: Infinito, 1985. {{es}}
  
In May 1911, he left Dresden for a journey to the East: Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Tarnovo, Gabrovo, Kasanlik, Istanbul, le Mount Athos (21 days), Athens and southern Italy, in the company of his friend Auguste Klipstein, an art history student. During this trip, he made numerous drawings, sketches and notes in his sketchbooks, as well as several hundred photographs.
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* {{a|JeanneretOzenfant1925}} [as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret], with Amédée Ozenfant, ''La Peinture moderne'', Paris: Crès, 1925, v+172+[30] pp. [http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx?sysId=13&IrisObjectId=6472&sysLanguage=fr-fr&itemPos=13&itemSort=fr-fr_sort_string1%20&itemCount=47&sysParentName=&sysParentId=25] {{fr}}
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** ''Atarashiki geijutsu'', trans. Yoshikawa Itsuji, Tokyo: Kawade Shobō, 1956, 172 pp; new ed. as ''Kindai kaiga'', Tokyo: Kajima Kenkyujo Shuppankai, 1968. {{jp}}
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** ''Sulla pittura moderna'', trans. Irene Alessi, intro. Gianni Contessi, Milan: C. Marinotti, 2004, 270 pp. {{it}}
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* with Paul Otlet and Pierre Jeanneret, ''Mundaneum'', Brussels: Union des associations internationales, 1928, 46 pp. {{fr}}
  
In 1912, he built for his parents the villa ''Jeanneret-Perret'' in the rue de la Montagne and the Villa ''Favre-Jacot'' in the town of Le Locle.
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* ''Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme'', Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1930, 268 pp. {{fr}}
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** ''[[Media:Corbusier_Le_Precisoes_Sobre_um_estado_presente_da_arquitetura_e_do_urbanismo.pdf|Precisões: sobre um estado presente da arquitetura e do urbanismo]]'', trans. Carlos Eugênio Marcondes de Moura, São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2004, 296 pp. {{br-pt}}
  
Next year he had an exhibition of 10 watercolors ''Le langage des Pierres'' [The Language of Stones], at the Salon d’Automne, Paris and received the certificate of competency for teaching art.
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* ''Aircraft'', London/New York: Studio, 1935; London: Trefoil, 1987, 124 pp. {{en}}
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** ''Aircraft. L'avion accuse'', Paris: Adam Biro, 1987, 150 pp. {{fr}}
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** ''Aircraft. L'avion accuse'', Milan: Abitare Segesta, 1996, 16+48 pp. {{it}}
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** ''Aircraft'', trans. Carolina del Olmo and César Rendueles, Madrid: Abada, 2003, 16+80 pp. {{es}}
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** ''Aircraft'', afterw. Philippe Duboÿ, Marseille: Parenthèses, 2015, 176 pp. Includes French version reconstructed from the archives of Le Corbusier Foundation. [http://www.editionsparentheses.com/Aircraft] {{en}},{{fr}}
  
In 1914, he travels to Cologne for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition and conference and
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* ''Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches. Voyage au pays des timides'', Paris: Plon, 1937, 325 pp. {{fr}}
begins studies on his ''Dom-ino concrete house'' project. The name (domino) is from the floor plan resembled a domino game piece and because the units could be aligned in a series like dominoes, to make row houses of different pattern.
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5199 ''When the Cathedrals Were White''], trans. Francis E. Hyslop, Jr., New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947; McGraw-Hill, 1964, 243 pp. {{en}}
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** ''[[Media:Corbusier_Le_Cuando_las_catedrales_eran_blancas_2a_ed.pdf|Cuando las catedrales eran blancas]]'', trans. Julio E. Payró, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1948; 2nd ed., 1958, 294 pp. {{es}}
  
In 1915, he works on his manuscript ''La construction des villes''. He builds ''Villa Schwob'' and the ''Scala cinema'' in La Chaux-de-Fonds (1916).  
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* ''Sur les 4 routes'', Paris: Gallimard, 1941. [http://fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx?sysId=13&IrisObjectId=6461&sysLanguage=en-en&itemPos=40&itemSort=en-en_sort_string1%20&itemCount=47&sysParentName=&sysParentId=25] {{fr}}
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** ''The Four Routes'', trans. Dorothy Todd, London: D. Dobson, 1947, 207 pp. {{en}}
  
In 1917 he leaves his native town (La Chaux-de-Fonds) and opens his first Parisian architecture studio at 20 rue de Belzunce (10th arrondissement), then at 29 rue d’Astorg (8th arrondissement). He lives in Paris at 20 rue Jacob (6th arrondissement) until 1933. He works as consultant to the SABA (''Société d’application du béton armé'') from April 1917 to January 1919.
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* with François de Pierrefeu, ''La maison des hommes'', Paris, 1942, 211 pp. {{fr}}
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** ''The Home of Man'', trans. Clive Entwistle and Gordon Holt, London: Architectural Press, 1948, 156 pp. {{en}}
  
In 1918 Le Corbusier paints ''La cheminée'' and have the ''Purist'' exhibition at the ''Galerie Thomas'' in [[Paris]], with the painter Amédée Ozenfant.
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* ''La Charte d'Athènes'', Paris: Plon, 1943, 243 pp; Paris: Minuit, 1957. {{fr}}
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** ''[[Media:Corbusier_Le_A_Carta_de_Atenas.pdf|A Carta de Atenas]]'', trans. Rebeca Scherer, São Paulo: IIUCITEC/EDUSP, 1993. {{br-pt}}
  
In 1919 he launches ''L’Esprit Nouveau magazine'' with Amédée Ozenfant and Paul Dermée.
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* ''Les trois établissements humains'', Paris: Denoël, 1945, 271 pp. {{fr}}
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** [[Media:Corbusier_Le_Os_tres_estabelecimentos_humanos_2a_ed.pdf|''Os três estabelecimentos humanos'']], trans. Dora Maria de Aguiar Whitaker, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1976; 2nd ed., 1979. {{br-pt}}
  
1920 is important in his biography because he adopts the pseudonym "Le Corbusier" for his architectural persona, derived from his maternal grandfather, Lecorbésier. Adopting a single name to identify oneself was in vogue by artists in many fields during that era, especially in Paris.
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* ''New World of Space: Some Day Through Unanimous Effort Unity will Reign Once More in the Major Arts : City Planning and Architecture, Sculpture, Painting'', New York Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948, 128 pp. [http://www.we-art-together.fr/produit.php?id=320&langue=EN] {{en}}
  
In 1921 he exhibits paintings ("des peintures puristes") with Amédée Ozenfant in the ''Galerie Druet'' (Paris). On the graphic poster appears in block capital the name "Jeanneret".
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* ''Le Modulor'', Boulogne, 1950; 2nd ed., 1951, 240 pp. {{fr}}
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** ''The Modulor: A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale Universally applicable to Architecture and Mechanics'', London: Faber and Faber, 1951, 243 pp. {{en}}
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** [[Media:Corbusier_Le_El_Modulor_2a_ed.pdf|''El Modulor'']], trans. Rosario Vera, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1953; 2nd ed. 1961, 225 pp. {{es}}
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** ''O Modulor'', trans. Marta Sequeira, Lisbon: Orfeu Negro, 2010. {{pt}}
  
In 1923 he publishes ''Vers une Architecture'' (based on articles published in "L’Esprit Nouveau"), published in English in 1927 as ''Towards a New Architecture''. One year later he establishes his architectural office at 35 rue de Sèvres (6th arrondissement) and gives lectures in Geneva, Lausanne and Prague. Same year he publishes ''L’Urbanisme'' (based on articles in ''L’Esprit Nouveau'' magazine).
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* ''Le Modulor II (La parole est aux usagers)'', Boulogne, 1955, 344 pp. {{fr}}
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** ''Modulor 2, 1955: Let the User Speak Next. Continuation of the Modulor, 1948'', trans. Peter de Francia and Anna Bostock, London: Faber and Faber, 1958, 336 pp. {{en}}
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** [[Media:Corbusier_Le_Modulor_2_ES.pdf|''Modulor 2'']], trans. Albert Junyent, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1962. {{es}}
  
He publishes in 1925 ''Almanach d’architecture moderne'' (''An Almanach of modern architecture'') and ''L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui'' (''Decorative Art of Today'') and (with Amédée Ozenfant) ''La Peinture Moderne'' (''Modern Painting''). All books are based on articles published or intended for "L’Esprit Nouveau".  
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* ''Entretien avec les étudiants des écoles d'architecture'', Paris: Minuit, 1957. {{fr}}
Le Corbusier builds ''Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau'' (Paris) and the ''Pessac housing estate'' near Bordeaux (1925).
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** ''[[Media:Corbusier_Le_Mensagem_aos_estudantes_de_arquitetura.pdf|Mensagem aos estudantes de arquitetura]]'', trans. Rejane Janowitzer, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2005. {{br-pt}}
  
In 1926 he publishes ''Architecture d’époque machiniste'' (Architecture of the machine age), on the same year when his father (Georges Edouard Jeanneret) dies. He lectures in Madrid (1927), Prague and Moscow (1928),  Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and  Frankfurt (1929).
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* ''Le poème électronique: Pavillon Philips pour l’Exposition Universelle de 1958'', Paris: Minuit,‎ 1958, 244 pp. {{fr}}
  
In 1930 he takes French nationality and marry Yvonne Gallis on 18th December. And he will publish ''Précisions sur un état présent de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme'' (based on his 1929 lectures in South America).
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* ''La Voyage d'Orient'', Paris: Minuit, 1966, 174 pp. {{fr}}
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** ''[http://visible-art.com/userfiles/file/Architectural%20Magazines/Le.Corbusier-El.Viaje.A.Oriente.pdf El Viaje de oriente]'', 1984; 2nd ed., Valencia: Artes Graficas Soler, 1993, 188 pp. {{es}}
  
In 1937 he receives the title of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French government. In 1938 he had painting exhibitions at the Kunsthaus (Zürich) and at the Louis Carré Gallery (Paris), under the name "Le Corbusier".
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* [http://fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx?sysId=25&sysLanguage=en-en&itemPos=1&sysParentId=25&clearQuery=1 More]
  
==Works==
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===Collected works===
<gallery>
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* ''[http://thepiratebay.uk.net/torrent/9670737 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. {{fr}}/{{en}}/{{de}}
File:Villa Jeanneret-Perret ca.1912.jpg|Villa ''Jeanneret-Perret'', ca. 1912.
 
File:Villa le Lac at Corseaux on Lake Geneva 1920s.jpg|Villa ''Le Lac'' at Corseaux on Lake Geneva, 1920s.
 
File:Ville Radieuse model and LeCorbusier 1930s.jpg|The model of Villa ''Radieuse''  and Le Corbusier, 1930s.
 
File:Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Savoye, 1935 .jpg|Le Corbusier with a model of Villa ''Savoye'', 1935.
 
</gallery>
 
  
;Selection
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===Selected essays===
* ''Villa Fallet'', Switzerland, 1905
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* {{a|JeanneretOzenfant1921}} [as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret], with Amédée Ozenfant, "Le Purisme", in ''L'Esprit nouveau'' 4, Paris, Jan 1921, pp 369-386. [http://portaildocumentaire.citechaillot.fr/doc/IFD/FRAPN02_ESPR_1921_004_02_PDF/esprit-nouveau]
* ''Villa Stotzer'', Switzerland, 1907
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** [http://monoskop.org/images/c/ce/Herbert_Robert_L_ed_Modern_Artists_on_Art_Ten_Unabridged_Essays.pdf#page=67 "Purism"], in ''Modern Artists on Art'', ed. Robert L. Herbert, Englewood Clifs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, 58-73. {{en}}
* ''Villa La Roche'', Paris, France, 1923
 
* ''Villas at Weissenhof Estate'', Stuttgart, Germany, 1927
 
* ''Tsentrosoyuz'', Moscow, Russia, 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, Japan, 1957
 
* ''Philips Pavilion'' at the World Expositon Brussels, Belgium, 1958
 
* ''Center for Electronic Calculus, Olivetti'', Milan, Italy, 1961
 
* ''Church of Saint-Pierre, Firminy'', Firminy, France, designed in 1960, built posthumously and completed under José Oubrerie's guidance, 2006
 
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
; By Le Corbusier
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* Geoffrey Baker, ''Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form'', 1984; Taylor & Francis, 1996, 416 pp; 2001.
* ''Étude sur le mouvement d’art décoratif en Allemagne'' (''Study of the decorative art movement in Germany''), 1912. (in French)
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** ''[http://visible-art.com/userfiles/file/Architectural%20Magazines/Le.Corbusier.-.Analisis.De.La.Forma.-.Gustavo.Gili.(Spanish).%5BRepacked.Pdf%5D.pdf Le Corbusier: Analisis de la forma]'', trans. Santiago Castan, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1985; 6th ed., 1997. {{es}}
* ''Vers une architecture'', 1923. (in French)
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* Jacques Lucan, ''[http://www.ac.abk-stuttgart.de/intern/downloadsat/Lucan_LeCorbusier-UneEncyclopedie.pdf Le Corbusier: une encyclopédie]'', Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987, 497 pp. {{fr}}
* ''L'Urbanisme'', 1924.
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* William J.R. Curtis, ''Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms'', Phaidon, 1994.
** [[Media:LeCorbusier_Towards_a_New_Architecture_1986.pdf|''Towards a New Architecture'']], 1931; 1986.
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* Mardges Bacon, ''Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid'', MIT Press, 2001, 424 pp. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/le-corbusier-america]
* ''El viaje de Oriente'', 1984; 1993. (in Spanish) [http://visible-art.com/userfiles/file/Architectural%20Magazines/Le.Corbusier-El.Viaje.A.Oriente.pdf]
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* Kenneth Frampton, ''Le Corbusier'', London: Thames and Hudson, 2001.
* ''Analisis de la Forma'', 1984. (in Spanish) [http://visible-art.com/userfiles/file/Architectural%20Magazines/Le.Corbusier.-.Analisis.De.La.Forma.-.Gustavo.Gili.(Spanish).%5BRepacked.Pdf%5D.pdf]
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* Carol S. Eliel, Francoise Ducros, Tag Gronberg, ''L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925'', New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001, 192 pp.
* Willy Boesiger, Oscar Stonorov, Max Bill (eds.), ''Le Corbusier - Oeuvre complete'', 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 (1965-1969) (French, English and German Edition), 1990-.
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* Flora Samuel, ''Le Corbusier in Detail'', Routledge, 2007, 264 pp.
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* J. K. Birksted, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5202 Le Corbusier and the Occult]'', MIT Press, 2009, 416 pp.
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* Nicola Pezolet, ''[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79183 Spectacles Plastiques: Reconstruction and the Debates on the 'Synthesis of the Arts'' in France, 1944-1962]'', MIT, 2013. Ph.D. thesis.
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* François Chaslin, ''Un Corbusier'', Paris: Seuil, 2015, 517 pp. {{fr}}
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* Marc Perelman, ''Le Corbusier: Une froide vision du monde'', Michalon, 2015, 256 pp. [http://marcperelman.com/ouvrages/ouvrage.php?id_ouvrage=18] [http://www.michalon.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=500538] {{fr}} Review: [http://dissidences.hypotheses.org/5796 Dissidences].
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* Xavier de Jarcy, ''Le Corbusier, un fascisme français'', Albin Michel, 2015, 288 pp. {{fr}}
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* Joseph Nechvatal, [http://hyperallergic.com/221158/revisiting-le-corbusier-as-a-fascist/ "Revisiting Le Corbusier as a Fascist"], ''Hyperallergic'', 10 Jul 2015.
  
; About Le Corbusier
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==Links==
* Jacques Lucan, ''Le Corbusier - Une Encyclopedie'', 1987 (in French)
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* [http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/ Le Corbusier Foundation] {{fr}}
* Curtis, William J.R., ''Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms'', Phaidon, 1994
 
* Frampton, Kenneth, ''Le Corbusier'', London, Thames and Hudson, 2001
 
* Eliel, Carol S., ''L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918 - 1925''. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002
 
* Flora Samuel, ''Le Corbusier in Detail'', 2007
 
  
==External links==
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[[Category:Architecture|Corbusier, Le]]
* [http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/ Le Corbusier Foundation] (in French)
 
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier Le Corbusier at French Wikipedia]
 

Revision as of 22:06, 9 October 2017


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
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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.

Selected works

Publications

Towards a New Architecture [1923], 1927, Log.
  • Étude sur le mouvement d’art décoratif en Allemagne, 1912. (French)
  • [as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret], with Amédée Ozenfant, Après le cubisme, Paris: Éditions des Commentaires, 1918, 60 pp; facs. repr., intro. Carlo Olmo, Torino: Bottega d'Erasmo, 1975. Outlines the aesthetic approach of Purism. (French)
    • "After Cubism", trans. John Goodman, in L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001, pp 129-168. (English)
    • Depois do cubismo, intro. Carlos A. Ferreira Martins, trans. Célia Euvaldo, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2005, 88 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Vers une architecture, Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. (French)
    • Kommende Baukunst, trans. & ed. Hans Hildebrandt, Berlin/Stuttgart/Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags, 1926, xv+253 pp; new ed. as Ausblick auf eine Architektur, rev. Eva Gärtner, Berlin: Ullstein, 1963, 215 pp. (German)
    • Towards a New Architecture, London: John Rodker, 1927, xix+289 pp; London: Architectural Press, 1946, OL; Praeger, 1970, OL; New York: Dover, 1986, 320 pp, ARG. (English)
    • Hacia una arquitectura, trans. Luis A. Romero, Buenos Aires: El Distribuidor Americano, 1939, 208 pp. (Spanish)
    • Verso una architettura, trans. Pierluigi Cerri, Pierluigi Nicolin and Carlo Fioroni, Milan: Longanesi, 1973, xlii+246 pp. (Italian)
    • Por uma arquitetura, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1973. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Toward an Architecture, intro. Jean-Louis Cohen, trans. John Goodman, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007, xiii+341 pp. [1] (English)
  • Urbanisme, Paris: Crès, 1924, 284 pp. (French)
    • The City of To-morrow and its Planning, trans. Frederick Etchells, London: John Rodker, 1929, xxvii+301 pp. Trans. of 8th FR ed. (English)
    • Le Ciudad del futuro, trans. E.L. Revol, 1962; 2nd ed., 1972; 3rd ed., Buenos Aires: Infinito, 1985. (Spanish)
  • [as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret], with Amédée Ozenfant, La Peinture moderne, Paris: Crès, 1925, v+172+[30] pp. [2] (French)
    • Atarashiki geijutsu, trans. Yoshikawa Itsuji, Tokyo: Kawade Shobō, 1956, 172 pp; new ed. as Kindai kaiga, Tokyo: Kajima Kenkyujo Shuppankai, 1968. (Japanese)
    • Sulla pittura moderna, trans. Irene Alessi, intro. Gianni Contessi, Milan: C. Marinotti, 2004, 270 pp. (Italian)
  • with Paul Otlet and Pierre Jeanneret, Mundaneum, Brussels: Union des associations internationales, 1928, 46 pp. (French)
  • Aircraft, London/New York: Studio, 1935; London: Trefoil, 1987, 124 pp. (English)
    • Aircraft. L'avion accuse, Paris: Adam Biro, 1987, 150 pp. (French)
    • Aircraft. L'avion accuse, Milan: Abitare Segesta, 1996, 16+48 pp. (Italian)
    • Aircraft, trans. Carolina del Olmo and César Rendueles, Madrid: Abada, 2003, 16+80 pp. (Spanish)
    • Aircraft, afterw. Philippe Duboÿ, Marseille: Parenthèses, 2015, 176 pp. Includes French version reconstructed from the archives of Le Corbusier Foundation. [3] (English),(French)
  • Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches. Voyage au pays des timides, Paris: Plon, 1937, 325 pp. (French)
  • Sur les 4 routes, Paris: Gallimard, 1941. [4] (French)
    • The Four Routes, trans. Dorothy Todd, London: D. Dobson, 1947, 207 pp. (English)
  • with François de Pierrefeu, La maison des hommes, Paris, 1942, 211 pp. (French)
    • The Home of Man, trans. Clive Entwistle and Gordon Holt, London: Architectural Press, 1948, 156 pp. (English)
  • La Charte d'Athènes, Paris: Plon, 1943, 243 pp; Paris: Minuit, 1957. (French)
    • A Carta de Atenas, trans. Rebeca Scherer, São Paulo: IIUCITEC/EDUSP, 1993. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Les trois établissements humains, Paris: Denoël, 1945, 271 pp. (French)
  • New World of Space: Some Day Through Unanimous Effort Unity will Reign Once More in the Major Arts : City Planning and Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, New York Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948, 128 pp. [5] (English)
  • Le Modulor, Boulogne, 1950; 2nd ed., 1951, 240 pp. (French)
    • The Modulor: A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale Universally applicable to Architecture and Mechanics, London: Faber and Faber, 1951, 243 pp. (English)
    • El Modulor, trans. Rosario Vera, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1953; 2nd ed. 1961, 225 pp. (Spanish)
    • O Modulor, trans. Marta Sequeira, Lisbon: Orfeu Negro, 2010. (Portuguese)
  • Le Modulor II (La parole est aux usagers), Boulogne, 1955, 344 pp. (French)
    • Modulor 2, 1955: Let the User Speak Next. Continuation of the Modulor, 1948, trans. Peter de Francia and Anna Bostock, London: Faber and Faber, 1958, 336 pp. (English)
    • Modulor 2, trans. Albert Junyent, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1962. (Spanish)
  • Entretien avec les étudiants des écoles d'architecture, Paris: Minuit, 1957. (French)
  • Le poème électronique: Pavillon Philips pour l’Exposition Universelle de 1958, Paris: Minuit,‎ 1958, 244 pp. (French)
  • La Voyage d'Orient, Paris: Minuit, 1966, 174 pp. (French)

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. (French)/(English)/(German)

Selected essays

  • [as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret], with Amédée Ozenfant, "Le Purisme", in L'Esprit nouveau 4, Paris, Jan 1921, pp 369-386. [6]
    • "Purism", in Modern Artists on Art, ed. Robert L. Herbert, Englewood Clifs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, 58-73. (English)

Literature

  • Geoffrey Baker, Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form, 1984; Taylor & Francis, 1996, 416 pp; 2001.
  • Jacques Lucan, Le Corbusier: une encyclopédie, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987, 497 pp. (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. [7]
  • 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.
  • François Chaslin, Un Corbusier, Paris: Seuil, 2015, 517 pp. (French)
  • Marc Perelman, Le Corbusier: Une froide vision du monde, Michalon, 2015, 256 pp. [8] [9] (French) Review: Dissidences.
  • Xavier de Jarcy, Le Corbusier, un fascisme français, Albin Michel, 2015, 288 pp. (French)
  • Joseph Nechvatal, "Revisiting Le Corbusier as a Fascist", Hyperallergic, 10 Jul 2015.

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