He was quoted describing Le Corbusier‘s buildings as “the ugliest and most unacceptable buildings in the world” and said that Le Corbusier’s "death filled me with an immense joy."Ħ) His deepest architectural inspiration came from visiting a monastery.
In 1926 he shot a film of a housing estate at Pessac.ĥ) Although Salvador Dalí at one point considered Le Corbusier a friend, he was far from complimentary about him upon his death in 1965. In spite of Le Corbusier’s “bad” explanation of the idea, as he would say, the scientist described it in a letter as “a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy.”Ĥ) Le Corbusier was fascinated with cinema. His style was a less romantic form of Cubism, which he called "purism".ģ) He met with Albert Einstein at Princeton University in 1964 and discussed the "Modulor". He chose this name in 1920 after publishing a manifesto, co-written with artist Amédée Ozenfant, called Aprés le Cubisme.Ģ) He gave up architecture for four years between 19, preferring to focus on painting. The name Le Corbusier, is French and is a different version of his grandmother's surname, Lecorbésier. If you are an architect or a designer, then you most certainly know about his Villa Savoye, Ronchamp Chapel, the Modulor, the Unité d’Habitation, and his unrealized plan for the Radiant City.but did you know that the famous architect designed a car in 1936? Or that there is a banknote carrying his picture?Ĭheck these Little-Known Facts about the man behind the myth, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret.ġ) His first name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret Le Corbusier, the pioneer of modern architecture and a leader of the International Style is better known for his modern buildings and pivotal role in urban planning.
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