Charles Le Corbusier
Charles Edouard Le Corbusier
Swiss
Architect - AsNotedIn
Architect - AsNotedIn
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| 1887/10/06 | Charles-Edouard Jeanneret is born in La Chaux- de-Fonds, in the canton of Neuchatel, in Switzerland. | Born | La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH | Canton Neuchatel | |||
| 1920/00/00 | Ten low-cost, cubist residences are built at Lege, near Pessac, for the father of Henry Fruges, a Bordeaux industrialist and lover of modern architecture. | Architect | Cite Fruges de Pessac | Pessac, FR | |||
| 1923/00/00 | "Vers une Architecture", a collection of essays on architecture by Charles Le Corbusier with contributions from Amedee Ozenfant, is published. | Author | Vers une Architecture (essay collection) | ||||
| 1923/00/00 | In formulating his 'matching age' aesthetic, Le Corbusier is influenced by the North American concrete grain elevators. "Thus we have the American grain elevators and factories, the magnificent first fruits of the new age." - Charles Le Corbusier | Admirer of the Form | Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator | St Louis Park | |||
| 1926/00/00 | Construction begins on Villa Stein for Gabrielle Colaco-Osorio de Monzie and Sarah Stein, Sister-in-law of Gertrude Stein. | Architect | Villa Stein | Garches | |||
| 1926/00/00 | Le Corbusier designs a townhouse for Rene Guiette who had asked for a dwelling based on the 1925 Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau. | Architect | Maison Guiette, Antwerp | Antwerp | Exposition internationale des arts decoratifs et industriels modernes, Paris | ||
| 1926/00/00 | The last of about 70 low-cost, cubist style houses are built in Pessac. | Architect | Cite Fruges de Pessac | Pessac, FR | |||
| 1928/09/00 | Charles Le Corbusier begins work on Villa Savoye. | Architect | Villa Savoye, Poissy | Poissy | |||
| 1931/00/00 | Although completed in 1930, the vacation home is presented to the Savoyes in 1931. | Architect | Villa Savoye, Poissy | Poissy | Birth of Modern Architecture | ||
| 1933/00/00 | Tsentrosoyuz building is built as office space for Soviet Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives | Architect | Tsentrosoyuz Building | Moscow | |||
| 1935/00/00 | During his first American lecture tour, Swiss born architect, Charles Le Corbusier, refuses to shake the hand of French born architect, Paul P Cret. | Life | Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1937/00/00 | The Savoyes put Le Corbusier on formal notice for not having designed a habitable residence. | Architect | Villa Savoye, Poissy | Poissy | Birth of Modern Architecture | ||
| 1949/10/00 | After its steel framework is erected, the Secretariat Building is ceremonially topped out with the hoisting of the flag of the United Nations. | Architect | Headquarters of the United Nations | New York City | |||
| 1951/00/00 | Le Corbusier designs and builds a vacation cabin for himself. | Architect | Cabanon de vacances | Roquebrune-Cap Martin | |||
| 1951/00/00 | Reconstruction of the Claude and Duval hosiery factory is completed. | Architect | Usine Claude et Duval, Saint-Die | Saint-Die-des-Vosges, FR | |||
| 1953/00/00 | Maison Curutchet is built for Argentinian surgeon Pedro Domingo Curutchet, 1949-1953. | Architect | Casa Curutchet | La Plata | |||
| 1954/00/00 | Le Corbusier designs Firminy Vert, a residential community in Firminy, France, where the city's demographic forecasts predict the population to rapidly increase in to 50,000 residence. | Architect | Firminy Vert | Firminy, FR | |||
| 1954/00/00 | Le Corbusier designs Firminy-Vert Stadium to accommodate 3,000 to 5,000 spectators. | Architect | Firminy Vert | Firminy, FR | |||
| 1955/06/25 | Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp is consecrated. | Architect | Notre Dame du Haut | Ronchamp | |||
| 1959/06/10 | National Museum of Western Art building, designed by Le Corbusier and three Japanese apprentices, opens in Tokyo, Japan. | Architect | National Museum of Western Art Tokyo | Tokyo | |||
| 1963/00/00 | Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is built for Harvard University, designed by Le Corbusier and Chilean architect Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente | Architect | Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts | Cambridge, MA | |||
| 1965/00/00 | Construction begins on Unite d'Habitation, a large, high rise apartment in Firminy, France. | Architect | Unite d'Habitation of Firminy-Vert | Firminy, FR | |||
| 1965/00/00 | Maison de la culture de Firminy-Vert is inaugurated. | Architect | Maison de la Culture de Firminy | Firminy, FR | |||
| 1965/08/27 | Charles Le Corbusier dies swimming in the sea off Cabbe beach near Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Le Corbusier is buried at Roquebrune cemetery. | Died | Roquebrune-Cap Martin | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |||
| 1973/00/00 | Construction begins on Saint-Pierre Church in Firminy, but will soon cease in 1975. | Architect | Eglise Saint-Pierre - Le Corbusier | Firminy, FR |
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| Vers une Architecture (essay collection) | Author | 1923/00/00 |
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