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<b>Biography

1887-1916 The Formative Years</b>

Le Corbusier is the pseudonym of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret born on October 6, 1887, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. He was the second son of Edouard Jeanneret, a skillful watch engraver, and Madame Jeanneret-Perret, a musician and piano teacher coming from a family of businessmen and travelers. A respectable background: craftsmen on the one side and solid middle class on the other. Le Corbusier was the name of one of his grand-fathers.

Throughout his childhood, Le Corbusier acquired a reputation of a hard-working and gifted student. Special attention was given to him by one of the professors of the Art School he was attending in addition to secondary school, Prof. L'Eplattenier. He introduced Charles Jeanneret not only to the techniques but also to the fundamental problems of art. Le Corbusier wanted to become a painter, but it was L'Eplattenier who insisted on his vocation as an architect. L'Eplattenier's provided a considerable help so as the execution of Jeanneret's first project. He managed to convince the art school board to give the seventeen-year-old a commission to build a small villa; but also persuaded the architect Rene Chapallaz to assist the young prodigy. The result was the Villa Fallet, built in 1906, which he later pointed at as a youthful sin, and wasn't keen on including it among his works.

In 1907, Le Corbusier left for a series of travel to Milan, Florence, Sienna, Bologna, Padoue and Venise in Italy. In 1908, he will depart in destination to Budapest and Vienna where he will meet Klimt, and finally arrives and stays, for most of the year of 1909, in Paris where he will work for his mother's side of the family as well as meets many designers such as Jourdain, Plumet or even Grasset. Le Corbusier will soon return to Paris for good but also never hesitated to go back to Eastern and Meridional Europe and never failed to bring back hundreds of notes, photographs and sketches.

<b>1916-1922 A New Beginning</b>

The Villa Schwob built in 1916 was the first Le Corbusier was pointing at with pride, as it displayed symmetrically arranged wings, a very lofty center window stretched according to the two stories high main room, which extends in different directions and adjoins the bedroom and various utility rooms. In 1919, Le Corbusier founded the periodical <i>l'Esprit Nouveau</i> in which he was able to expose his ideas and plans.

<b>1922-1930 New Realizations</b>

In 1922, as he reveals his famous plan of a small city for three millions inhabitants and starts collaborating with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, he will meet Yvonne Gallis, a Monegasque model whom he will marry in 1930. It was during this period that he published his most significant theoretical books on painting, the decorative arts, architecture and city planning. It's also at that time that he created his most visually and intellectually sought buildings.

<b>1930-1945 Reassessment</b>

After 1930, year in which he got married and became a French national, Le Corbusier undertook a new direction in architecture by modifying his attitude towards materials, formal composition and nature. It was a phase of great travels: in 1931 he went many times to Algiers, Morroco and Spain. He saw Moscow for the third time and the Greek islands for the first in 1933. Another first visit in 1935 but to the United States this time and a second trip to Rio de Janeiro in 1936.

<b>1945-1965 Fulfillment</b>

During this period, he created his most significant buildings and established himself as one of the foremost architects the world has known. Indeed, from 1916 on to the 27th of August 1965, date on which Le Corbusier died while bathing in the Mediterranean Sea, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret will have released over forty-six publications, accomplished eighty-four realizations, including an administrative hub in India, and achieved over a hundred blueprints. 

The most famous realizations are listed below and displayed in the Gallery:

1916 Villa Schwob in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland. 
1917 Water tower in Bordeaux, France. 
1923 La Roche-Jeanneret Villas in Paris, France. 
1926 Salute Army, People's Palace in Paris, France. 
1926 Guiette House in Anvers, Belgium. 
1928 Savoye Villa in Poissy, France. 
1930 Suisse Pavilion, Cite Universitaire of Paris, France. 
1931 Nungesser and Coli Building in Paris, France. 
1945 Habitation Unit in Marseille, France. 
1950 Notre Dame du Haut Chapel, Ronchamp, France. 
1951 Le Corbusier's Bungalow, Roquebrune, France. 
1951 Shodan Villa, Ahmedabad, India. 
1955 High Court, Museum, Secretary and Assembly, Chandigarh, India. 
1953 The Sainte Marie de la Tourette Covent, Lyon, France. 
1958 Philips Pavilion, Bruxelles, Belgium. 
1961 Harvard Carpenter Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, U.S.A. 
1963 Le Corbusier Center, Zurich, Switzerland.