LE CORBUSIER

Born in Switzerland in 1887, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, said Corbusier, is interested in architecture as of its adolescence. After studies at the School of art of the Lime-of-Bottoms, it carries out its first construction in 1905: the Fallet villa. Years of voyages follow then, work and studies. It opens a workshop of architecture in Paris, street of Sevres, in 1922. It is interested in the urbanization and builds various buildings for Rio, São Paulo, Algiers, Antwerp, Geneva and Stockholm. It is with the construction from the Radiant City in Marseilles, in 1952, that it concretizes the synthesis of its ideas on the habitat by using
housing units, the "Modulors", realized according to human dimensions'.

It dies in 1965 by leaving behind him a considerable work which marked a whole generation of architects.

Villa Savoye: