LE CORBUSIER BIOGRAPHY.

BORN

Le Corbusier was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in Switzerland on October 6, 1887.

DIED

Death August 27, 1965 (77 years) Switzerland

FAMILY OR OCUPATIONS.
Le Corbusier was the second son of Edouard Jeanneret, an artist who painted dials in the towns
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.
STUDIES.
At age 13, Le Corbusier left primary school to attend Arts Dcoratifs 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 LEplattenier, whom Le Corbusier called my master
and later referred to him as his only teacher. LEplattenier taught Le Corbusier art history, drawing
and the naturalist aesthetics of art nouveau. Perhaps because of his extended studies in art,
Corbusier soon abandoned watchmaking and continued his studies in art and decoration,
intending to become a painter. LEplattenier insisted that his pupil also study architecture, and he
arranged for his first commissions working on local projects.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS PROYECT.

The ground floor on stilts:
The open floor: from the independent structure, leveraging technology generates
reinforced concrete structure supporting pillars in the slabs.
The free facade: the corollary of free plane in the vertical plane. Lags structure of the
facade
Lengthened the window
The Garden: Le Corbusier for the area occupied by the nature of housing should be
returned in a garden on the roof of the building.
PROYECTS
Casa de Amde Ozenfant (1922, Pars)
Casa Cook (1926, Boulogne-sur-Seine)
Villa Stein (1927, Garches)

Villa Saboye (1929, Poissy)

Pabelln suizo de la ciudad universitaria (1930-1933, Pars)
Ministerio de Educacin Nacional (1936-1943, Ro de Janeiro, en colaboracin con Lcio Costa)
Ministerio de Cultura (1936-1943, Ro de Janeiro, en colaboracin con Lucio Costa)
Unidades de habitacin (1947-1952, Marsella; 1952-1957, Nantes-Rez; 1955-1960, Briey; 1957, Berln)
Capilla de Notre-Dame-du-Haut (1950-1955, Ronchamp)
Capitolio (1950-1962, Chandigarh)
Centro cultural (1956, Ahmadabad)
Pabelln brasileo de la ciudad universitaria (1959, Pars; en colaboracin con Lucio Costa)
Convento de la Tourette (1957-1960, Evreux)
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (1964, Universidad de Harvard).
MOST IMPORTANT WORK.
VILLA SAVOYE 1931

PALACIO DE JUSTICIA 1956

NOTRE DAME DE HAUT 1954

ACUARDS.

CASA DE SUIZA

From his formative years, his conception of

architecture was always attached to art. At
age 20 he built his first house, Villa Fallet, in
his hometown, before settling in Paris,
made a trip to Italy and Vienna formation.
It was the capital of the Seine where he
adopted his stage name in order to sign
their provocative articles in the journal
L'Esprit Nouveau founded by the poet Paul
Derme and Cubist painter Amde
Ozenfant. Here mixed his drawings of
landscapes and monuments with pictures