LE CORBUSIER
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (1887-1965) came from La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland).
He was at the same time an architect, a painter, a town-planner, a writer, and a humanist. Le Corbusier was a great theorist and he appeared as the leading light in the modern movement. He gave a visual definition of the modern movement with “five points of architecture”, which are a set of architectural principles: the free designing of the ground plan, the free design of the façade, the column principle, the horizontal window, and roof gardens. He pleaded for rationalizing building techniques and for using new materials, particularly concrete as he liked its neat aspect. In June 1955, the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut was inaugurated. Its construction had been carried out by André Maisonnier, an architect, and a faithful collaborator of Le Corbusier’s.
