Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret)

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Courbusier, October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965, was a French-Swiss architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. An imported early work of LC was the Esprit Noveau Pavilion bulit for the 1925 Paris Inrenational Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (the event gave Art Deco its name). LC bulit the pavilion in cillaboration with Amédée Ozenfant and with his cousin Pierre jeanneret.Together they had broken with cubism and formed the purism movement in 1918 and in 1920 they founded their journal L*Esprit Noveau. "A house", LC wrote, "is a cell within the body of a city. The cell is made up of the vital elements which are the mechanics of a house". When WWII ended, le Courbusier was nearly sixty years old and in need of a new project. He found a funder and partner in the Minister of Reconstruction and Urbanism, Raol Dautry."Unité d'habition de grandeur conforme" was built as housing units of standard size in Marseille, which had been heavily damaged during the war. This was LC:s first public commission and became a major breakthrough for him. At the Röhsska museum is a model-kitchen interior made by LC:s college Charlotte Perriande from this spectaculare social project.