Le Corbusier: A Life By Nicholas Fox Weber Knopf, 821 pages, $45 Le Corbusier Le Grand By the editors of Phaidon Press Phaidon Press, 624 pages, $200 The architect Le Corbusier astonished the world… ...

The dishevelled space is perhaps not what might be expected of Le Corbusier, as he called himself — a pioneer of modern architecture, with its pristine geometric forms and egalitarian functionalism.

Le Corbusier (1887-1965), Drawings, Collages & Gouaches: 1928-1962, may be the first such showing in the United States of the drawings of Le Corbusier, the architect whose iconic work shaped ...

Le Corbusier never got to set his eyes on Saint-Pierre, which commenced 8 years after his death, and would only be completed in 2006. All this notwithstanding, the church - one of the architect's ...

Like It Or Not, Architect Le Corbusier's Urban Designs Are Everywhere By NPR Staff Published November 2, 2014 at 5:23 AM EST Listen • 5:58 ...

Le Corbusier - real name Charles-Édouard Jeanneret - was a key proponent of Modernism, and is widely considered the 20th Century's most influential architect.

In his seminal work “Toward an Architecture” (1923), Le Corbusier compelled his contemporaries to forget the “kissing doves” of old architecture and embrace the beauty of the machinery and ...

Le Corbusier's butterfly roof finally became real just three years later in Karuizawa, Japan. But it was not built by Le Corbusier—the designer was Czech architect Antonin Raymond.

In 1923, Le Corbusier was only 36 years old, but he already had a number of buildings to his name, including the Atelier Ozenfant. Although he was particularly interested in workers' housing, his ...