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Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland's Jura region in 1887, named Charles-Édouard Jeanneret – and died during his daily swim (having suffered a heart attack) in his beloved seaside spot in the Cote ...

NEW YORK — Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, the architect who renamed himself Le Corbusier, was blessed when it came to his formation as a thinker, designer and theorist of the modern world. He came from ...

Love him or hate him, you can’t say that Le Corbusier didn’t have a profound impact on the urban landscape. This was the guy, after all, who gave us the projects, or, as he preferred to call them, ...

Photographer Roberto Conte uncovers the hidden gems of Chandigarh’s concrete infrastructure in his new series exploring the Le Corbusier-designed Indian city. The images capture the modernist ...

Chaslin’s research uncovered anti-Semitic sketches attributed to Le Corbusier. These shocking revelations come just as France is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the architect’s death (see A New ...

What do an Ikea showroom floor, urban housing projects and Kanye West have in common? They've all been inspired, at least to some degree, by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier. Though his ...