Le Corbusier Le Grand

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one of Modernism's most influential architects, urban planners, and theorists. Born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the self-named Le Corbusier was the creator of some of the most important and impressive buildings of the past century - Villa Savoye at Poissy, the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, the Parliament Building in Chandigarh, India. He was also an accomplished painter, sculpture, furniture designer, urbanist, and author…