Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who would be known to the world as Le Corbusier, was born on the 6th of October, 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Beginning with his family background and early training at home, where he cultivated a regionalist style that would be the first of many aesthetic identities to be exploited and then cast off throughout his long career.
Le Corbusier dominated twentieth-century architecture in much the same way that Picasso dominated painting. His outstanding achievements, his vision of a harmonious machine civilization, architecture, city planning, his paintings, drawings, sculpture, and writing together compose a portrait of the architect as "protean creator".
Le Corbusier is one of the most imaginative and avantgarde architect of the last century to whom we owe the revolutionary, structural change of modern architecture.

Notre-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1955	Villa Savoye, Poissy, 1929/31
Unité d'habitation, Marseille, 1947-52	Couvent La Tourette, l'Arbresle, 1955

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