Le Corbusier

Charles Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965), was an architect who became known as Le Corbusier, "the carpenter". He was also a designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of so-called modern architecture.

Jeanneret was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. He designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America.

Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning. He prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several buildings there.

In 2016, seventeen projects by Le Corbusier in seven countries became UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Some Corbus classics: Convent of La Tourette, Ronchamp, Villa Savoye, Unite d'Habitation, or Villa Roche).

Corbusier Thoughts

The home should be the treasure chest of living. - Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. - Le Corbusier

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. - Le Corbusier

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination. - Le Corbusier

New York . . . is a savage city! - Le Corbusier

My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life – the poetry. - Le Corbusier

I thought New York is a catastrophe . . . a beautiful catastrophe. - Le Corbusier