Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
Switzerland (1887—1965)Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, in 1887. After studying decorative arts, he turned to architecture under the guidance of Charles L’Eplattenier. In 1905, he designed his first house, Villa Fallet, with René Chapallaz. After travelling through Europe, he settled in Paris in 1917 and began collaborating with Amédée Ozenfant. Together they published Après le cubisme (1918), establishing Purism, and founded the journal L’Esprit Nouveau in 1920 with Paul Dermée. That year, Jeanneret adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier. In 1923, he published Vers une architecture. His urban planning projects included Ville contemporaine de trois millions d’habitants and, in the 1930s, Ville radieuse. He died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, in 1965.
