Biography
Biography Le Corbusier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (better known under the pseudonym Le Corbusier) was born on 6th October, in
La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland.
He is the son of Georges-Edouard Jeanneret, engraver and enameller of watches, and Marie Charlotte Amélie Jeanneret-Perret, musician. He is a man of many talents (urban planner, sculptor, painter, designer, writer, architect), he worked on projects on a worldwide scale.
Throughout his life, Le Corbusier travels to acquire new techniques and perfect his knowledge by drawing inspiration from the countries visited. It is during his travels that he will find inspiration for the artistic, architectural and urban elements that will form the basis of his work.
As a representative of the modern movement, he introduced new ideas such as functionalism, purism and the link between nature and architecture. For Le Corbusier, a modern architecture is defined in five points: the piles, the window-banner, the free plan, the free facade and the roof-terrace. These are the principles that he will apply in his achievements.
Le Corbusier died on 27th August, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, during a swim in the Medi
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Who Was Le Corbusier?
In his architecture, Le Corbusier chiefly built with steel and reinforced concrete and worked with elemental geometric forms. Le Corbusier's painting emphasized clear forms and structures, which corresponded to his architecture.
Early Life
Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris on October 6, , Le Corbusier was the second son of Edouard Jeanneret, an artist who painted dials in the town’s renowned watch industry, and Madame Jeannerct-Perrct, a musician and piano teacher. His family's Calvinism, love of the arts and enthusiasm for the Jura Mountains, where his family fled during the Albigensian Wars of the 12th century, were all formative influences on the young Le Corbusier.
At age 13, Le Corbusier left primary school to attend Arts Décoratifs at La Chaux-de-Fonds, where he would learn the art of enameling and engraving watch faces, following in the footsteps of his father.
There, he fell under the tutelage of L’Eplattenier, whom Le Corbusier called “my master” and later referred to him as his only teacher. L’Eplattenier taught Le Corbusier art history, drawing and the naturalist aesthetics of art nouveau. Perhaps because of his exten
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