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Biography Le Corbusier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (better known under the pseudonym Le Corbusier) was born on 6th October, 1887 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, t