le corbusier

     

Gropius, Mies van der Rohe & this Swiss architect all worked for architect Peter Behrens

Trivia about le corbusier

  • This Swiss man who used a pseudonym was known for houses on stilts like the Savoye house in Poissy
  • This Swiss-born French architect thought of the ideal house as "A machine for living"
  • From 1920 to 1925 he & French painter Amedee Ozenfant edited L'Esprit Nouveau, an avant-garde magazine
  • Punjab's capital Chandigarh was designed by this largely self-taught Swiss architect
  • Born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in 1887, he took his mother's maiden name as his professional name
  • One of the most famous homes he designed in the 1920s was that of Swiss collector Raoul La Roche
  • Appropriately, he designed the Swiss Dormitory at Cite Universitaire in Paris
  • Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known by this name, called his houses "machines for living in"

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