Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and pioneer of modern architecture. He was born in 1887 in Switzerland and some of his most famous works included the Villa Savoye built from 1928-1931, and the Maisons Jaoul houses built in 1954-1956 near Paris, both of which featured his principles of modern architecture using reinforced concrete. Le Corbusier created the Modulor system to improve architecture based on human proportions and received several awards for his contributions to the field of architecture.

1. LE CORBUSIER
Modern Architect
A Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer,
and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern
architecture.
Biography Invention
Famous
Building 1:
Villa Savoye
Famous
Building 2:
Maisons Jaoul
Nationality : French
Born on : 06 October
1887 AD
Born in : La Chaux-de-
Fonds
Died on : 27 August
1965 AD
Place of
death: Roquebrune-
Cap-Martin
Awards : 1961 -
Frank P. Brown
Medal
1961 - AIA Gold Medal
Modulor system
which is based on
human proportion
and “five points of
architecture” was
created to make
an improvement
in architecture.
A modernist villa
in Poissy, in the
outskirts of Paris,
France. It was
designed by Swiss
architects Le
Corbusier and his
cousin, Pierre
Jeanneret, and
built between
1928 and 1931
using reinforced
concrete.
Maisons Jaoul are a
celebrated pair of
houses in the
upmarket Paris suburb
of Neuilly-sur-Seine,
designed by Le
Corbusier and built in
1954-56. They are
among his most
important post-war
buildings and feature
a rugged aesthetic of
unpainted cast
concrete "béton brut"
and roughly detailed
brickwork.
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