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    Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (UK: /lə kɔːrˈbjuːzieɪ/ lə kor-BEW-zee-ay, US: /lə ˌkɔːrbuːˈzjeɪ, -ˈsjeɪ/...
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    The Pavillon Le Corbusier is a Swiss art museum in Zürich-Seefeld at Zürichhorn dedicated to the work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. In 1960, Heidi...
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  • Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture is an architecture manifesto conceived by architect, Le Corbusier. It outlines five key principles of design...
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    This list of Le Corbusier buildings categorizes the work of the architect. These countries are listed in chronological order. 1910 School of arts and crafts...
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  • The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement is a World Heritage Site consisting of a selection of 17 building...
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  • Fondation Le Corbusier is a private foundation and archive honoring the work of architect Le Corbusier. It operates Maison La Roche, a museum located in...
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    Le Corbusier had a short relationship with the Soviet Union, starting with his first trip to Moscow in 1928, and ending with the rejection of his proposal...
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    by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and the French designer Charlotte Perriand, who worked in the atelier of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and...
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    rejection of ornament. According to Le Corbusier, the roots of the movement were to be found in the works of Eugène Viollet le duc. The movement emerged in the...
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  • Le Corbusier's Furniture is a classic furniture line created by Le Corbusier. The line was introduced in 1928 at the Salon d‘Autumne in Paris. Le Corbusier...
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    Eileen Gray. Etoile de mer. Le Corbusier Friends of E.1027 Rukschcio and Barres analysis of recent restoration Le Corbusier's Role in the Controversy Over...
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    architect Le Corbusier in 1930. It constitutes one of the most influential and controversial urban design doctrines of European modernism. Although Le Corbusier...
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  • with Le Corbusier for a decade she "stepped out of his shadow into a successful career of her own." After finishing her work with Le Corbusier she worked...
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    the Le Corbusier minimalism – style with the steel cage giving an element of industrial. The first results of the collaboration between Le Corbusier and...
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    Villa Savoye (category Le Corbusier buildings in France)
    architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete. As an exemplar of Le Corbusier's "five...
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    with his cousin, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier), for about twenty years. Arnold-André-Pierre Jeanneret-Gris was born...
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    parts of vegetation. Some 20th-century artists and architects, including Le Corbusier and Salvador Dalí, have proportioned their works to approximate the golden...
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    The Villa Le Lac, also known as the Villa "Le Lac" Le Corbusier, is a residential building on Lake Geneva in Corseaux, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, designed...
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    Unité d'habitation (category Le Corbusier buildings)
    Housing Unit) is a modernist residential housing typology developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso. It formed...
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    Notre-Dame du Haut (category Le Corbusier buildings in France)
    of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The chapel is a working religious building and is under the guardianship...
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  • Lycée Le Corbusier may refer to the following schools in France: Lycée Le Corbusier - Aubervilliers Lycée Le Corbusier - Cormeilles-en-Parisis Lycée Le Corbusier...
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    with ceramic tiles, both for protection and decoration. The architect Le Corbusier first learned the uses of reinforced concrete working as a draftsman...
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    invited Le Corbusier to design a convent at La Tourette, close to Lyon. Father Coutourier wrote to Le Corbusier in 1953: "I hope that you can go to Le Thoronet...
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    poster says: "for a United Russia." The Villa Savoye (1928–31) by Le Corbusier; Le Corbusier called for a "calm and powerful" architecture built of steel and...
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    and writer. Together with Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (later known as Le Corbusier) he founded the Purist movement. Ozenfant was born into a bourgeois family...
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    Modulor (redirect from Le Modulor)
    anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965). It was developed as a visual bridge between two incompatible...
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    National Museum of Western Art (category Le Corbusier buildings)
    the collection, the works were returned to Japan. Le Corbusier was selected for this task. Le Corbusier designed a masterplan to include the area surrounding...
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    Chandigarh (category Le Corbusier buildings in India)
    a team headed by Le Corbusier, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry. Chandigarh's Capitol Complex—as part of a global ensemble of Corbusier's buildings—was declared...
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  • Le Corbusier, famous for his contributions to the modern international style, centered his design philosophy on systems of harmony and proportion. Le...
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    Harrison & Abramovitz, with final projects developed by Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier. The term Turtle Bay is occasionally used as a metonym for the UN headquarters...
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