Facts about Le Corbusier, Architect
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A pioneer of modernism, Le Corbusier was one of the founding members of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne, established in 1928.
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Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, completed in 1952, embodied Le Corbusier's vision of a self-contained residential community with shops and amenities within a single building.
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Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in Switzerland, Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym as a pen name before becoming one of the 20th century's most influential architects.
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Chandigarh, the planned capital city of Punjab, India, was largely designed by Le Corbusier in the 1950s.
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The Villa Savoye, completed in 1931 near Paris, is considered a landmark example of Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture.
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Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier developed the influential Modulor system, a proportional scale based on human measurements and the golden ratio.