Le Corbusier Biography

Le Corbusier biography

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NAME: Le Corbusier
OCCUPATION: Architect
BIRTH DATE: October 06, 1887
DEATH DATE: August 27, 1965
EDUCATION: École des Arts Décoratifs at La Chaux-de-Fonds

PLACE OF BIRTH: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
PLACE OF DEATH: Cap Martin, France

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Le Corbusier was an influential Swiss architect and city planner, whose designs combine the functionalism of the modern movement with a bold expressionism.

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Born on October 6, 1887, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Le Corbusier was an internationally influential Swiss architect and the first architect to make a studied use of rough-cast concrete, a technique that satisfied his taste for asceticism and for sculptural forms. He belonged to the first generation of the so-called International school of architecture and was their most able propagandist.