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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.
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==Portraits==
 
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Jeanneret_family_Corbusier_1889.jpg|Jeanneret family, young Le Corbusier on the left, 1889.
 
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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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Le_Corbusier_Vichy%27s_stadium,_1942.jpg|At Vichy's stadium, 1942.
 
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</gallery>
 
  
 
==Selected works==
 
==Selected works==
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* ''Villa Fallet'',  Switzerland, 1905.
 
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* ''Villa Stotzer'', Switzerland, 1907.
 
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* ''Villa La Roche'', Paris, France, 1923.
 
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* ''Villas at Weissenhof Estate'', Stuttgart, 1927.
 
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* ''Tsentrosoyuz'', Moscow, 1928.
 
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* ''Maison Errazuriz'', Chile, 1930.
 
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* ''Curutchet House'', La Plata, Argentina, 1949.
 
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* ''United Nations headquarters'', New York City, 1952.
 
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* ''Mill Owners' Association Building'', Ahmedabad, India, 1951.
 
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* ''National Museum of Western Art'', Tokyo, 1957.
 
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* ''Philips Pavilion'' at the World Expositon Brussels, 1958.
 
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* ''Center for Electronic Calculus, Olivetti'', Milan, 1961.
 
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* ''Church of Saint-Pierre'', Firminy, France, designed in 1960, built posthumously and completed under José Oubrerie's guidance, 2006.
 
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<gallery>
 
<gallery>
 
Villa Jeanneret-Perret ca.1912.jpg|Villa Jeanneret-Perret, c1912.
 
Villa Jeanneret-Perret ca.1912.jpg|Villa Jeanneret-Perret, c1912.
 
Villa le Lac at Corseaux on Lake Geneva 1920s.jpg|Villa Le Lac at Corseaux on Lake Geneva, 1920s.
 
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.
 
Le_Corbusier_with_a_model_of_Villa_Radieuse_1930s.jpg|Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Radieuse, 1930s.
 
Le_Corbusier_with_a_model_of_Villa_Radieuse_1930s.jpg|Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Radieuse, 1930s.
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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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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.
 
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.  
 
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.
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
  
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==Writings==
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==Publications==
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* ''Étude sur le mouvement d’art décoratif en Allemagne'', 1912. (in French)
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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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* as Amédée Ozenfant, ''Après le cubisme'', Paris, 1918. (in French)
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* ''Étude sur le mouvement d’art décoratif en Allemagne'', 1912. {{fr}}
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** ''[[Media:Corbusier_Le_Depois_do_cubismo.pdf|Depois do cubismo]]'', trans. Célia Euvaldo, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2005, 88 pp. (in Portuguese)
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* ''Vers une architecture'', Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. (in French)
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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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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5192 ''Towards a New Architecture''], London: John Rodker, 1931; New York: Dover, 1986, 320 pp.
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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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** ''Por uma arquitetura'', São Paulo: Perspectiva, 5th ed., 1998. (in Portuguese)
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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}}
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* ''Urbanisme'', Paris: Crès, 1924, 284 pp. (in French)
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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. (in Spanish)
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* {{a|Corbusier1923}} ''Vers une architecture'', Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. {{fr}}
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* with Paul Otlet and Pierre Jeanneret, ''Mundaneum'', Brussels: Union des associations internationales, 1928, 46 pp. (in French)
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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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* ''Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme'', Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1930, 268 pp. (in French)
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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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** ''[[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. (in Portuguese)
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** ''Hacia una arquitectura'', trans. Luis A. Romero, Buenos Aires: El Distribuidor Americano, 1939, 208 pp. {{es}}
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* ''Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches. Voyage au pays des timides'', Paris: Plon, 1937, 325 pp. (in French)
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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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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5199 ''When the Cathedrals Were White''], trans. Francis E. Hyslop, Jr., Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947; McGraw-Hill, 1964, 243 pp.
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** ''Por uma arquitetura'', São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1973. {{br-pt}}
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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. (in Spanish)
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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}}
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* with François de Pierrefeu, ''La maison des hommes'', Paris, 1942, 211 pp. (in French)
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* ''La Charte d'Athènes'', Paris: Plon, 1943, 243 pp; Paris: Minuit, 1957. (in French)
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* ''Urbanisme'', Paris: Crès, 1924, 284 pp. {{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. (in Portuguese)
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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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* ''Les trois établissements humains'', Paris: Denoël, 1945, 271 pp. (in French)
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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}}
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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. (in Portuguese)
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* ''Le Modulor'', Boulogne, 1950; 2nd ed., 1951, 240 pp. (in French)
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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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** [[Media:Corbusier_Le_El_Modulor_2a_ed.pdf|''El Modulor'']], trans. Rosario Vera, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1953; 2nd ed. 1961, 225 pp. (in Spanish)
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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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** ''O Modulor'', trans. Marta Sequeira, Lisbon: Orfeu Negro, 2010. (in Portuguese)
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** ''Sulla pittura moderna'', trans. Irene Alessi, intro. Gianni Contessi, Milan: C. Marinotti, 2004, 270 pp. {{it}}
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* ''Le Modulor II (La parole est aux usagers)'', Boulogne, 1955, 344 pp. (in French)
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* with Paul Otlet and Pierre Jeanneret, ''Mundaneum'', Brussels: Union des associations internationales, 1928, 46 pp. {{fr}}
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** [[Media:Corbusier_Le_Modulor_2_ES.pdf|''Modulor 2'']], trans. Albert Junyent, Buenos Aires: Poseidon, 1962. (in Spanish)
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* ''Entretien avec les étudiants des écoles d'architecture'', Paris: Minuit, 1957. (in French)
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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_Mensagem_aos_estudantes_de_arquitetura.pdf|Mensagem aos estudantes de arquitetura]]'', trans. Rejane Janowitzer, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2005. (in Portuguese)
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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}}
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* ''Le poème électronique: Pavillon Philips pour l’Exposition Universelle de 1958'', Paris: Minuit,‎ 1958, 244 pp. (in French)
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* ''La Voyage d'Orient'', Paris: Minuit, 1966, 174 pp. (in French)
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* ''Aircraft'', London/New York: Studio, 1935; London: Trefoil, 1987, 124 pp. {{en}}
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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. (in Spanish)
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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}}
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* ''Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches. Voyage au pays des timides'', Paris: Plon, 1937, 325 pp. {{fr}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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* ''Entretien avec les étudiants des écoles d'architecture'', Paris: Minuit, 1957. {{fr}}
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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}}
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* ''Le poème électronique: Pavillon Philips pour l’Exposition Universelle de 1958'', Paris: Minuit,‎ 1958, 244 pp. {{fr}}
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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}}
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* [http://fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx?sysId=25&sysLanguage=en-en&itemPos=1&sysParentId=25&clearQuery=1 More]
  
 
===Collected works===
 
===Collected works===
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11309 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)
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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}}
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===Selected essays===
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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]
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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}}
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
 
* Geoffrey Baker, ''Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form'', 1984; Taylor & Francis, 1996, 416 pp; 2001.
 
* Geoffrey Baker, ''Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form'', 1984; Taylor & Francis, 1996, 416 pp; 2001.
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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. (in Spanish)
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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}}
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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. (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}}
 
* William J.R. Curtis, ''Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms'', Phaidon, 1994.
 
* 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. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/le-corbusier-america]
 
* 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]
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* J. K. Birksted, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5202 Le Corbusier and the Occult]'', MIT Press, 2009, 416 pp.
 
* J. K. Birksted, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5202 Le Corbusier and the Occult]'', MIT Press, 2009, 416 pp.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
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* [http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/ Le Corbusier Foundation] (in French)
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* [http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/ Le Corbusier Foundation] {{fr}}
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* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier Le Corbusier at French Wikipedia]
 
  
 
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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

  • Villa Jeanneret-Perret, c1912.

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

  • with Pierre Jeanneret, Maison Planeix, 1928.

  • with Pierre Jeanneret, Villa Savoye, 1930.

  • Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Savoye, 1935.

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

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

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

  • Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp, 1955.

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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