![]() ![]() His mother Marie-Charlotte-Amelie (1860-1960 née Perret) was a musician. In 1900 he began an apprenticeship as an engraver and chaser at the École d’Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds. His father Georges-Édouard (1855-1926) was an enameller of watch cases with his own workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds, then the centre of the Swiss watch industry. Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture (1923) Youth and Early InfluencesĬharles Jeanneret came from an old-established and widely ramified family. “Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.” Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier also was influential in urban planning. Le Corbusier was one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. On October 6, 1887, Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, and writer Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was born. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) ![]()
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