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[[File:Family_Jeanneret_1889.jpg|thumb|250px|Jeanneret family, young Le Corbusier is on the left, 1889.]]
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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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[[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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[[File:Le_Corbusier_Vichy%27s_stadium,_1942.jpg|thumb|250px|Le Corbusier and little boy, Vichy's stadium, 1942.]]
 
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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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==Works==
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==Selected works==
 
<gallery>
 
<gallery>
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File:Villa Jeanneret-Perret ca.1912.jpg|Villa ''Jeanneret-Perret'', ca. 1912.
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Villa Jeanneret-Perret ca.1912.jpg|Villa Jeanneret-Perret, c1912.
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File:Villa le Lac at Corseaux on Lake Geneva 1920s.jpg|Villa ''Le Lac'' at Corseaux on Lake Geneva, 1920s.
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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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File:Ville Radieuse model and LeCorbusier 1930s.jpg|The model of Villa ''Radieuse'' and Le Corbusier, 1930s.
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Le_Corbusier_Pierre_Jeanneret_1928_Maison_Planeix.jpg|with Pierre Jeanneret, ''Maison Planeix'', 1928.
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File: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_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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* ''Villa Fallet'', Switzerland, 1905
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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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* ''Villa Stotzer'', Switzerland, 1907
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* ''Étude sur le mouvement d’art décoratif en Allemagne'', 1912. {{fr}}
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* ''Villa La Roche'', Paris, France, 1923
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* ''Villas at Weissenhof Estate'', Stuttgart, Germany, 1927
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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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* ''Tsentrosoyuz'', Moscow, Russia, 1928
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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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* ''Maison Errazuriz'', Chile, 1930
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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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* ''Curutchet House'', La Plata, Argentina, 1949
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* ''United Nations headquarters'', New York City, 1952
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* {{a|Corbusier1923}} ''Vers une architecture'', Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. {{fr}}
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* ''Mill Owners' Association Building'', Ahmedabad, India, 1951
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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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* ''National Museum of Western Art'', Tokyo, Japan, 1957
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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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* ''Philips Pavilion'' at the World Expositon Brussels, Belgium, 1958
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** ''Hacia una arquitectura'', trans. Luis A. Romero, Buenos Aires: El Distribuidor Americano, 1939, 208 pp. {{es}}
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* ''Center for Electronic Calculus, Olivetti'', Milan, Italy, 1961
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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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* ''Church of Saint-Pierre, Firminy'', Firminy, France, designed in 1960, built posthumously and completed under José Oubrerie's guidance, 2006
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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]
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===Collected works===
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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==
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* Geoffrey Baker, ''Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form'', 1984; Taylor & Francis, 1996, 416 pp; 2001.
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* ''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}}
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* ''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}}
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* ''L'Urbanisme'', 1924.
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* William J.R. Curtis, ''Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms'', Phaidon, 1994.
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** [[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]
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* ''Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches. Voyage au pays des timides'', Plon, Paris 1937
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* Kenneth Frampton, ''Le Corbusier'', London: Thames and Hudson, 2001.
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** [[Media:Le_Corbusier_When_the_Cathedrals_Were_White_McGraw-Hill_Paperbacks_1964.pdf|''When the Cathedrals Were White'']], trans. Francis E. Hyslop, Jr., McGraw-Hili Book Company, 1964
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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.
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* ''Les Trois établissements humains'', Paris, 1945
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* Flora Samuel, ''Le Corbusier in Detail'', Routledge, 2007, 264 pp.
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** [[Media:Os-tres-estabelecimentos-humanos-le-corbusier-ocr.pdf|''Os Tres Estabelecimentos Humanos'']], transl. Dora Maria de Aguiar Whitaker, Editora Perspectiva, Sao Paulo, 1979 (in Portughese)
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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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* [[Media:El-modulor-1-le-corbusier-ocr.pdf|''El Modulor 1, Ensayo sobreuna media armonica...'']], vol. 1, Edtorial Poseidon, Buenos Aires, 1953 (Spanish)
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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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* [[Media:El-modulor-2-le-corbusier-ocr.pdf|''El Modulor 2, Ensayo sobreuna media armonica...'']], vol. 2, Edtorial Poseidon, Buenos Aires, 1962 (Spanish)
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* François Chaslin, ''Un Corbusier'', Paris: Seuil, 2015, 517 pp. {{fr}}
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* ''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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* 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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* ''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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* Xavier de Jarcy, ''Le Corbusier, un fascisme français'', Albin Michel, 2015, 288 pp. {{fr}}
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* 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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* Joseph Nechvatal, [http://hyperallergic.com/221158/revisiting-le-corbusier-as-a-fascist/ "Revisiting Le Corbusier as a Fascist"], ''Hyperallergic'', 10 Jul 2015.
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; On Corbusier
 
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* Jacques Lucan, ''Le Corbusier - Une Encyclopedie'', 1987 (in French)
 
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* Curtis, William J.R., ''Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms'', Phaidon, 1994
 
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* Frampton, Kenneth, ''Le Corbusier'', London, Thames and Hudson, 2001
 
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* Eliel, Carol S., ''L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918 - 1925''. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002
 
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* Flora Samuel, ''Le Corbusier in Detail'', 2007
 
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* http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79183
 
  
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==External links==
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==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
Web Aaaaarg, Wikipedia, Academia.edu

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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