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.

Aliases (4)

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person → Swiss person → architect → designer → painter → urban planner → writer →
alsoKnownAs	Charles-Edouard Jeanneret → Charles-Édouard Jeanneret →
architecturalConcept	Five Points of Architecture → Modulor → Radiant City → free façade → free plan → pilotis → ribbon windows → roof garden →
awardReceived	AIA Gold Medal → Royal Gold Medal →
birthName	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	Capitol Complex, Chandigarh → Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts → Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut → 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 2 → Maison Curutchet → Maison Guiette → Maison La Roche-Jeanneret → Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp → Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh → Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau → Plan Voisin → Secretariat Building, Chandigarh → Unité d’Habitation, Berlin → Unité d’Habitation, Briey-en-Forêt → Unité d’Habitation, Firminy → Unité d’Habitation, Marseille → Unité d’Habitation, Nantes-Rezé → Urbanisme → Vers une architecture → Villa Jeanneret → Villa La Roche → Villa Savoye →
occupation	architect → furniture designer → painter → urban planner → writer →
placeOfBirth	La Chaux-de-Fonds →
placeOfDeath	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 → La Chaux-de-Fonds → Marseille → Paris →

Referenced by (113)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts → Chandigarh → Cité Frugès de Pessac → Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette → General Assembly Hall → High Court of Punjab and Haryana → Immeuble Clarté → Immeuble locatif à la Porte Molitor → La Ville Radieuse → Maison Curutchet → Maison Guiette → Maison de la Culture de Firminy → Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l’Occident → Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp → Open Hand Monument → Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh → Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau → Petite villa au bord du lac Léman (Villa ‘Le Lac’) → Secretariat Building, Chandigarh → The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement → United Nations Headquarters → Unité d’Habitation, Marseille → Usine Claude et Duval → Villa La Roche → Villa Savoye →	architect
Alvar Aalto → Amancio Williams → Charlotte Perriand → Gordon Bunshaft → Iannis Xenakis → Jørn Utzon → Kenzo Tange → Oscar Niemeyer → Paul Rudolph → Peter Eisenman → Philip Johnson → Richard Meier → Robert Venturi → Santiago Calatrava → Sigfried Giedion → Tadao Ando →	influencedBy
Cassina → Charlotte Perriand → Fernand Léger → Josep Lluís Sert → Lúcio Costa → Pierre Jeanneret →	collaboratedWith
La Ville Radieuse → Le Modulor → Maison de la Culture de Firminy → Open Hand Monument → Radiant City →	creator
Auguste Perret → Charles L’Eplattenier → Charles L’Eplattenier ("Charles-Édouard Jeanneret") → Peter Behrens → Walter Gropius →	influenced
LC2 Petit Modèle → LC2 armchair → LC4 chaise longue → Open Hand Monument →	designer
Eugénie Savoye → Pierre Savoye → Savoye family →	commissionedFrom
Charles L’Eplattenier → Charles L’Eplattenier ("Charles-Édouard Jeanneret") → École d’Art de La Chaux-de-Fonds →	notableStudent
Le Corbusier ("Charles-Édouard Jeanneret") → Le Corbusier ("Charles-Edouard Jeanneret") →	alsoKnownAs
Eugénie Savoye → International Style →	associatedWith
Le Modulor → Villa La Roche →	associatedWithArchitect
Urbanisme → Vers une architecture →	author
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin cemetery → Roquebrune-Cap-Martin cemetery ("Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris") →	burialPlaceOf
Usine Claude et Duval → Villa Savoye →	designedBy
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin cemetery → Roquebrune-Cap-Martin cemetery ("Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris") →	hasNotableBurial
AIA Gold Medal → Royal Gold Medal →	notableRecipient
Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh → Secretariat Building, Chandigarh →	partOfUrbanPlanBy
Raoul La Roche →	architectOfCommissionedBuilding
Le Corbusier ("Modulor") →	architecturalConcept
Usine Claude et Duval →	associatedArchitect
Urbanisme →	authorPseudonym
Le Corbusier ("Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris") →	birthName
Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh →	cityPlanner
Pierre Savoye →	clientOf
Savoye family →	commissionedArchitect
Pierre Jeanneret →	cousinOf
Modern Architecture: International Exhibition →	featuredArchitect
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin cemetery →	hasGraveOf
Modern architecture →	hasKeyFigure
Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne →	hasMember
La Chaux-de-Fonds →	hasNotablePerson
Brutalism →	hasNotableProponent
Immeuble locatif à la Porte Molitor →	hasNotableResident
Fondation Le Corbusier →	namedAfter
Modernism →	notableFigure
La Sarraz Congress →	participant
Raoul La Roche →	patronOf
Chandigarh →	planner
Pierre Jeanneret →	relative
Maison Guiette →	significantArchitect
Peter Behrens →	student
École d’Art de La Chaux-de-Fonds →	trained
Pierre Savoye →	villaDesignedBy
Brutalism →	wasInfluencedBy
Urbanisme ("Charles-Édouard Jeanneret") →	writtenBy