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Le Corbusier

1887 - 1965

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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French-speaking Swiss parents, and acquired French nationality by naturalization in 1930. His career spanned five decades, in which he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, as well as North and South America. He considered that "the roots of modern architecture are to be found in Viollet-le-Duc." Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Le Corbusier is the 2nd most popular architect, the 3rd most popular biography from Switzerland and the most popular Swiss Architect.

Le Corbusier is most famous for his modernist architecture.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Le Corbusier ranks 2 out of 518. Before him are Antoni Gaudí. After him are Khufu, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Vitruvius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Mimar Sinan, Alvar Aalto, Donato Bramante, Imhotep, Andrea Palladio, and Albert Speer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Le Corbusier ranks 1. After him are Chiang Kai-shek, Erwin Schrödinger, Bernard Montgomery, Marc Chagall, Charles I of Austria, Erich von Manstein, Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ernst Röhm, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. Among people deceased in 1965, Le Corbusier ranks 3. Before him are Winston Churchill, and T. S. Eliot. After him are Malcolm X, Edward Victor Appleton, W. Somerset Maugham, Syngman Rhee, Albert Schweitzer, Farouk of Egypt, Martin Buber, Eli Cohen, and Hermann Staudinger.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Le Corbusier ranks 3 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), and Leonhard Euler (1707). After him are Carl Jung (1875), Paracelsus (1493), Henry Dunant (1828), Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Le Corbusier ranks 1. After him are Francesco Borromini (1599), Carlo Maderno (1556), Domenico Fontana (1543), Peter Zumthor (1943), Mario Botta (1943), Hannes Meyer (1889), Max Bill (1908), Carlo Fontana (1638), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Bernard Tschumi (1944), and Pierre Jeanneret (1896).

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