Who was Le Corbusier?

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Charles Edouard Jeanneret, known by the nickname of Le Corbusier, was one of the most prestigious and daring architects of the twentieth century. Swiss origin and French nationality lived between 1887 and 1965. Besides distinguishing architecture, excelled as a painter and art theorist. Created, along with Amédé Ozenfant, purist movement, whose manifesto, entitled After Cubism, was published in 1918. two years later founded the journal L'Esprit Nouveau (The New Spirit), which released its research and new architectural concepts. Among his contributions were highlighted using the free plan, the building stands high above the game of volumes in space, the valuation of a façade lighting as independent and formal appeal. In his projects also interested optically harmonious measures, and obtained from the human body. Thus, created a system known as the modulor proportions, which is based on the size of the Anglo-Saxon ideal, ie, 183 cm.

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Among the books he authored include The men's house, when the cathedrals were white, Towards an architecture, and the city radiating modulor in which unveiled the foundation of its architecture.

Among his many projects stood the village of Monzie in Garches, the Notre Dame du Aut, in Ronchamp, and the urban project of Chandigarh, a city in India where he had to capture the Asian sentiment and build an urban area facing the Himalayas.

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