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=Le Corbusier= **Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris**, who chose to be known as **Le Corbusier** ( October 6, 1887 –  August 27 , 1965 ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in his 30s. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout central Europe, India, Russia, and one each in North and South America. He was also an urban planner, painter, sculptor, writer, and modern furniture designer. The Open Hand Monument is one of numerous projects in Chandigarh, India designed by Le Corbusier National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan Centre Le Corbusier (Heidi Weber Museum) in Zürich-Seefeld (Zürichhorn) Major buildings and projects Five points of architecture It was Le Corbusier's [|Villa Savoye] that most succinctly summed up his five points of architecture that he had elucidated in the journal //L'Esprit Nouveau// and his book //Vers une architecture//, which he had been developing throughout the 1920s. First, Le Corbusier lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground, supporting it by //pilotis// – reinforced concrete stilts. These //pilotis//, in providing the structural support for the house, allowed him to elucidate his next two points: a free façade, meaning non-supporting walls that could be designed as the architect wished, and an open floor plan, meaning that the floor space was free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls. The second floor of the Villa Savoye includes long strips of ribbon windows that allow unencumbered views of the large surrounding yard, and which constitute the fourth point of his system. The fifth point was the Roof garden to compensate the green area consumed by the building and replacing it on the roof. A ramp rising from the ground level to the third floor roof terrace, allows for an architectural promenade through the structure. The white tubular railing recalls the industrial "ocean-liner" aesthetic that Le Corbusier much admired. As if to put an exclamation point on Le Corbusier's homage to modern industry, the driveway around the ground floor, with its semicircular path, measures the exact turning radius of a 1927 Citroën automobile. media type="youtube" key="zpj5utbmeKg" width="425" height="350"
 * 1905: Villa Fallet, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
 * 1912: Villa Jeanneret-Perret, La Chaux-de-Fonds
 * 1916: Villa Schwob, La Chaux-de-Fonds
 * 1923: Villa La Roche/Villa Jeanneret, Paris
 * 1924: Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau, Paris (destroyed)
 * 1924: Quartiers Modernes Frugès, Pessac, France
 * 1925: Villa Jeanneret, Paris
 * 1926: Villa Cook, Boulogne-sur-Seine, France
 * 1927: Villas at Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart, Germany
 * 1928: [|Villa Savoye] , Poissy-sur-Seine, France View on the map

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