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Facts about Le Corbusier and Modernism
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Modulor, Le Corbusier's proportional system published in 1948, used the golden ratio and human body measurements to harmonize architectural dimensions.
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In 1925, Le Corbusier's radical Plan Voisin proposed demolishing large sections of central Paris and replacing them with uniform cruciform skyscrapers.
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Urbanist ideas from Le Corbusier heavily influenced the design of Chandigarh, India's planned city built in the 1950s.
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The Villa Savoye, completed in 1931 near Paris, is considered one of Le Corbusier's purest expressions of modernist architectural principles.
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Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier championed the Five Points of Architecture, a modernist framework including pilotis, flat roofs, and free facades.