Le Corbusier

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French person Swiss person architect designer painter urban planner writer

Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.

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Label	Occurrences
Le Corbusier canonical	199
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret	6
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris	3
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret	1
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand	1
Modulor	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person ⓘ Swiss person ⓘ architect ⓘ designer ⓘ painter ⓘ urban planner ⓘ writer ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Le Corbusier ⓘ surface form: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Le Corbusier ⓘ surface form: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
architecturalConcept	International Style ⓘ surface form: Five Points of Architecture Le Corbusier self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Modulor Radiant City ⓘ free façade ⓘ free plan ⓘ pilotis ⓘ ribbon windows ⓘ roof garden ⓘ
awardReceived	AIA Gold Medal ⓘ Royal Gold Medal ⓘ
birthName	Le Corbusier self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
burialPlace	Roquebrune-Cap-Martin cemetery ⓘ
coFounded	Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Switzerland ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	France ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ
countryOfDeath	France ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1887-10-06 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1965-08-27 ⓘ
educatedAt	École d’Art de La Chaux-de-Fonds ⓘ
employer	Auguste Perret ⓘ Peter Behrens ⓘ
fieldOfWork	architecture ⓘ industrial design ⓘ painting ⓘ theory of architecture ⓘ urban planning ⓘ
founded	Le Corbusier’s architectural studio in Paris ⓘ
genre	architectural theory ⓘ
influenced	Brutalism ⓘ modern architecture ⓘ post-war urban planning ⓘ
influencedArchitect	I. M. Pei ⓘ Kenzo Tange ⓘ Louis Kahn ⓘ Oscar Niemeyer ⓘ Tadao Ando ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	French ⓘ
memberOf	Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne ⓘ
movement	International Style ⓘ Modernism ⓘ
notableIdea	high-density high-rise housing in park-like settings ⓘ machine for living in ⓘ standardization in housing ⓘ
notableWork	Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh ⓘ surface form: Capitol Complex, Chandigarh Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts ⓘ Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp ⓘ surface form: Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut Unité d’Habitation, Marseille ⓘ surface form: Cité Radieuse, Marseille Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette ⓘ High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh ⓘ Immeuble Clarté ⓘ LC2 armchair ⓘ LC4 chaise longue ⓘ La Ville Radieuse ⓘ Le Modulor ⓘ Le Modulor ⓘ surface form: Le Modulor 2 Maison Curutchet ⓘ Maison Guiette ⓘ Villa La Roche ⓘ surface form: Maison La Roche-Jeanneret Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp ⓘ Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh ⓘ Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau ⓘ La Ville Radieuse ⓘ surface form: Plan Voisin Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh ⓘ surface form: Secretariat Building, Chandigarh Unité d’Habitation, Marseille ⓘ surface form: Unité d’Habitation, Berlin Unité d’Habitation, Marseille ⓘ surface form: Unité d’Habitation, Briey-en-Forêt Unité d’Habitation, Marseille ⓘ surface form: Unité d’Habitation, Firminy Unité d’Habitation, Marseille ⓘ Unité d’Habitation, Marseille ⓘ surface form: Unité d’Habitation, Nantes-Rezé Urbanisme ⓘ Vers une architecture ⓘ Villa La Roche ⓘ surface form: Villa Jeanneret Villa La Roche ⓘ Villa Savoye ⓘ
occupation	architect ⓘ furniture designer ⓘ painter ⓘ urban planner ⓘ writer ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Neuchâtel ⓘ surface form: La Chaux-de-Fonds
placeOfDeath	Roquebrune-Cap-Martin cemetery ⓘ surface form: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
religion	Protestantism ⓘ
teacher	Charles L’Eplattenier ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear	2016 ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageSite	The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement ⓘ
workLocation	Buenos Aires ⓘ Chandigarh ⓘ Neuchâtel ⓘ surface form: La Chaux-de-Fonds Marseille ⓘ Paris ⓘ

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United Nations Headquarters → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

International Style → associatedWith → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Le Corbusier → birthName → Le Corbusier self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris

Le Corbusier → alsoKnownAs → Le Corbusier ⓘ

this entity surface form: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

Le Corbusier → alsoKnownAs → Le Corbusier ⓘ

this entity surface form: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret

Le Corbusier → architecturalConcept → Le Corbusier self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modulor

Oscar Niemeyer → influencedBy → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Modernism → notableFigure → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Villa Savoye → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Villa Savoye → designedBy → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh → partOfUrbanPlanBy → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh → cityPlanner → Le Corbusier ⓘ

High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

subject surface form: High Court of Punjab and Haryana

Villa La Roche → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Villa La Roche → associatedWithArchitect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Immeuble Clarté → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne → hasMember → Le Corbusier ⓘ

LC2 armchair → designer → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Urbanisme → author → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Urbanisme → writtenBy → Le Corbusier ⓘ

this entity surface form: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

Urbanisme → authorPseudonym → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Radiant City → creator → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Le Modulor → creator → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Le Modulor → associatedWithArchitect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Walter Gropius → influenced → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Philip Johnson → influencedBy → Le Corbusier ⓘ

La Ville Radieuse → creator → Le Corbusier ⓘ

La Ville Radieuse → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Maison Guiette → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Maison Guiette → significantArchitect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Maison Curutchet → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Peter Behrens → influenced → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Peter Behrens → student → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Charles L’Eplattenier → influenced → Le Corbusier ⓘ

this entity surface form: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

Charles L’Eplattenier → notableStudent → Le Corbusier ⓘ

this entity surface form: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

Auguste Perret → influenced → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Kenzo Tange → influencedBy → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Unité d’Habitation, Marseille → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp → architect → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Brutalism → wasInfluencedBy → Le Corbusier ⓘ

Brutalism → hasNotableProponent → Le Corbusier ⓘ

École d’Art de La Chaux-de-Fonds → notableStudent → Le Corbusier ⓘ

École d’Art de La Chaux-de-Fonds → trained → Le Corbusier ⓘ