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Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier ( Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (
b La Chaux-de-Fonds, 6 Oct. 1887;
d Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, 27 Aug. 1965). Swiss-born architect, painter, designer, and writer who became a French citizen in 1930. Although chiefly celebrated as one of the greatest and most influential architects of the 20th century, Le Corbusier also has a niche in the history of modern painting as one of the founders of
Purism. Up to 1929 he painted only still-life, but from that time he occasionally introduced the human figure into his compositions. He adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in 1920, but continued to sign his paintings ‘Jeanneret’. The pseudonym derives from the name of one of his grandparents and is also a pun on his facial resemblance to a raven (French: ‘corbeau’). Apart from paintings and architecture, his enormous output included drawings, book illustrations, tapestry designs, furniture, and numerous books, pamphlets, and articles.
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Le Corbusier gets permanent space in Chandigarh
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 10/6/2008; 647 words
; ...Syndication. Chandigarh, Oct. 6 -- 'Le Corbusier centre and museum' was inaugurated...Sector 19, which was the office of Le Corbusier. "This is the place where the...Vidya Nand Singh told IANS. The Le Corbusier centre in Chandigarh will be the...
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Le Corbusier's change of art The architect was about much more than high-rises
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/8/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Just bulldoze the Right Bank, was Le Corbusier's typically audacious advice...manifesto Toward an Architecture - Le Corbusier is widely considered the most important...Swiss, watchmaking town in 1887, Le Corbusier (ne Charles-Edouard Jeanneret...
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Le Corbusier: A Life.(Books)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 12/17/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...as they need bread or a place to sleep.a* - Le Corbusier Who was Le Corbusier? Was he the father of modernist architecture...now,a* writes Nicholas Fox Weber, author of Le Corbusier: A Life, a*there has been no substantial biography...
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Le Corbusier the life of forms: 'the time of history ... a sea occupied by innumerable forms of a finite number of types.'.(history)(In memoriam)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...single key to the enigmatic world of Le Corbusier. As well as being an architect...reminiscences of an idealised past. Le Corbusier is a figure of vast historical...origin. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Le Corbusier's buildings communicate before...
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EXHIBIT TRACES DEVELOPMENT OF LE CORBUSIER
News Wire article from: United Press International; 2/11/2003; 700+ words
; ...0000 Exhibit traces development of Le Corbusier NEW YORK, Feb 11, 2003 (United...International via COMTEX) -- Who was Le Corbusier and what was his artistic vision before he was Le Corbusier? That is the intriguing question...
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Le Corbusier, Enigmatic Modernist.(Le Corbusier in Detail)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; 4602 Le Corbusier in Detail, by Flora Samuel, Architectural...completion of his most influential works, Le Corbusier remains an enigma, a renaissance man...the human figure. Notwithstanding, Le Corbusier's system is purely mathematical and...
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The Lay of the Landscape.(International Edition; THE ARTS)(Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture art exhibition)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 3/2/2009; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Christopher Werth Le Corbusier was a better architect than urban...film that opens the new exhibit "Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture" at...charming medieval lanes. Thankfully, Le Corbusier's plan was considered as preposterous...
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Chandigarh dedicates museum to its creator Le Corbusier
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 10/15/2008; 619 words
; ...creator and world famous architect Le Corbusier by dedicating his workplace in...The other centres dedicated to Le Corbusier are Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Canada Foundation Le Corbusier in Paris, Centre Le Corbusier...
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Le Corbusier: L'Unité d'habitation de Marseilles
Magazine article from: Concrete; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Le Corbusier: L'Unit d'habitation de Marseilles...France he coined a new name for himself, Le Corbusier, an expressionist device that later...Stalin, Hitler and Tito would use. In Le Corbusier's case it became synonymous with concrete...
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The genius of Corb in its many manifestations comes to Liverpool.(Le Corbusier )
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; 'My friend M. Le Corbusier is an amateur architect and professional...remarked. Indeed Paris discovered Le Corbusier, or Charles-Edouard Jeanneret...architecture, and the design of cities, Le Corbusier was a prodigy who made everything...
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Le Corbusier
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Le Corbusier , pseud. of Charles Édouard...especially the International style . In 1908, Le Corbusier worked with Auguste Perret , a pioneer...of building. In the following years Le Corbusier produced schemes for houses, apartments...
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Corbusier, Le
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Corbusier, Le See Le Corbusier
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Corbusier, Le.
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Corbusier, Le. Pseudonym from 1920 of the Swiss...published under the pseudonym ‘Le Corbusier’: those contributions were...found many devotees. In his writings Le Corbusier defined architecture as a play of masses...
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Le Corbusier, Charles-Édouard
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Le Corbusier, Charles-Édouard (1887–1965). See Corbusier .
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Jeanneret-Gris, Arnold-André-Pierre
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...International Modern Movement . A cousin of Le Corbusier , he joined the office of Perret...from 1921 to 1940 worked with Le Corbusier on architectural designs, town...industrialized building , while Le Corbusier seems to have esteemed them more...
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