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Le Corbusier

1887 - 1965

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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (UK: lə kor-BEW-zee-ay, US: lə KOR-booz-YAY, -⁠booss-YAY, French: [lə kɔʁbyzje]), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French speaking Swiss parents, and acquired French nationality by naturalization on 19 September 1930. His career spanned five decades, in which he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, as well as North and South America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Le Corbusier has received more than 4,990,329 page views. His biography is available in 162 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 149 in 2019). Le Corbusier is the 2nd most popular architect, the 3rd most popular biography from Switzerland and the most popular Swiss Architect.

Le Corbusier is most famous for his modernist architecture.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Le Corbusier ranks 2 out of 518. Before him are Antoni Gaudí. After him are Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Vitruvius, Alvar Aalto, Imhotep, Mimar Sinan, Donato Bramante, Andrea Palladio, Leon Battista Alberti, Khufu, and Albert Speer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Le Corbusier ranks 1. After him are Erwin Schrödinger, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Chiang Kai-shek, Erich von Manstein, Charles I of Austria, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Padre Pio, Ernst Röhm, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, and Arthur Rubinstein. Among people deceased in 1965, Le Corbusier ranks 3. Before him are Winston Churchill, and Malcolm X. After him are Albert Schweitzer, Syngman Rhee, Farouk of Egypt, Martin Buber, Moshe Sharett, Stan Laurel, Edward Victor Appleton, Eli Cohen, and Louise Mountbatten.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Le Corbusier ranks 3 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), and Leonhard Euler (1707). After him are Paracelsus (1493), Henry Dunant (1828), Carl Jung (1875), Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Sepp Blatter (1936), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), and Jean-Paul Marat (1743).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Le Corbusier ranks 1. After him are Francesco Borromini (1599), Carlo Maderno (1556), Peter Zumthor (1943), Domenico Fontana (1543), Mario Botta (1943), Hannes Meyer (1889), Max Bill (1908), Bernard Tschumi (1944), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Carlo Fontana (1638), and Adolphe Appia (1862).

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