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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (UK: / l ə k ɔːr ˈ b juː z i. eɪ / lə kor-BEW-zee-ay, [2] US: / l ə ˌ k ɔːr b uː z ˈ j eɪ,-b uː s ˈ j eɪ / lə KOR-booz-YAY, -booss-YAY, [3] [4] French: [lə kɔʁbyzje]), [5] was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is ...
Goldfinger was born in Budapest to a Jewish family. [1] The family business was forestry and saw-mills, which led Goldfinger to consider a career in engineering until he became interested in architecture after reading Hermann Muthesius's Das englische Haus, a description of English domestic architecture around the turn of the twentieth century.
In December, on the advice of Father Couturier, he goes to Marseille to photograph the Unité d'Habitation of Le Corbusier. He sends Le Corbusier the 650 prints taken in one day. The architect asks him to become his photographer. [1] 1950 : Starts photographing intensively for Le Corbusier. 3 November, he marries Judith Molnar.
Pavillon L'Esprit Nouveau at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. The pavilion was designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. The pavilion also included several cubist sculptures by Jacques Lipchitz, one of which was placed on the grass in front of the building. Source
The sculptor Jacques Lipchitz introduced them to architect Le Corbusier, then largely unknown, who, during this time, was designing a series of villas, including innovative homes for Michael Stein (Gertrude's brother) and Lipchitz himself. In 1926, they commissioned the architect to design what Le Corbusier said was the first "true cubic house ...
From 1927 to 1937 they worked together with Charlotte Perriand at the Le Corbusier-Pierre Jeanneret studio, rue de Sèvres. [2] In 1929 the trio prepared the "House Fittings" section for the Decorative Artists Exhibition and asked for a group stand, renewing and widening the 1928 avant-garde group idea.
Located in Boulogne-sur-Seine, it was built in 1926 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret; and commissioned by American journalist William Cook and his French wife, Jeanne. [17] Le Corbusier deemed the house as "the true cubic house" (French: la vraie maison cubique), as its constructional plan originated from a square, rendering its cubic form ...
The Tsentrosoyuz Building or Centrosoyuz Building [1] (Russian: Центросоюз) is a government structure in Moscow, Russia, constructed in 1933 by Le Corbusier and Nikolai Kolli. Centrosoyuz refers to a Soviet bureaucracy, the Central Union of Consumer Cooperatives.