Le Corbusier
1887 to 1965
7 documented presences
7 places
Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Le Corbusier across 7 places, from 1907 to 1954. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 to 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Le Corbusier was documented, and when
1907 to 1910period
Italyattested
“Le Corbusier wrote later that the Unité d'Habitation concept was inspired by the visit he had made to the Florence Charterhouse at Galluzzo in Italy, in 1907 and 1910 during his early travels.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1907 to 1910period
Florence Charterhouseattested
“Le Corbusier wrote later that the Unité d'Habitation concept was inspired by the visit he had made to the Florence Charterhouse at Galluzzo in Italy, in 1907 and 1910 during his early travels.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1917year
Parisattested
“Le Corbusier moved to Paris definitively in 1917 and began his architectural practice with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret (1896–1967), a partnership that would last until the 1950s, with an interruption in the World War II years.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1935year
United Statesattested
“In 1935, Le Corbusier made his first visit to the United States.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1954year
Cambridge, Massachusettsattested
“It is magnificent and terrible; terrible meaning that there is nothing cold about it to the eyes." File:National museum of western art05s3200.jpg|The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo (1954–1959) File:2023-0323-Harvard-Carpenter_Ce…”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1954year
Tokyoattested
“It is magnificent and terrible; terrible meaning that there is nothing cold about it to the eyes." File:National museum of western art05s3200.jpg|The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo (1954–1959) File:2023-0323-Harvard-Carpenter_Ce…”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1954year
Cambridgeattested
“It is magnificent and terrible; terrible meaning that there is nothing cold about it to the eyes." File:National museum of western art05s3200.jpg|The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo (1954–1959) File:2023-0323-Harvard-Carpenter_Ce…”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
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Places Le Corbusier is documented in
Cambridge1 presence · 1954Cambridge, Massachusetts1 presence · 1954Italy1 presence · 1907Paris1 presence · 1917Tokyo1 presence · 1954United States1 presence · 1935
Florence Charterhouse1 presence · 1907
Other places tied to Le Corbusier in the record
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6 October 1887exact date
La Chaux-de-Fondsmentioned
“Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born on 6 October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a city in the Neuchâtel canton in the Romandie region of Switzerland.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
6 October 1887exact date
Canton of Neuchâtelmentioned
“Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born on 6 October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a city in the Neuchâtel canton in the Romandie region of Switzerland.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
6 October 1887exact date
Romandiementioned
“Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born on 6 October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a city in the Neuchâtel canton in the Romandie region of Switzerland.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1905 to 1912period
La Chaux-de-Fondsmentioned
“File:Cdffallet.jpg|Le Corbusier's student project, the Villa Fallet, a chalet in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (1905) File:Maison blanche 01.jpg|The "Maison Blanche", built for Le Corbusier's parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds (1912) File:Vil…”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1905 to 1912period
Le Loclementioned
“File:Cdffallet.jpg|Le Corbusier's student project, the Villa Fallet, a chalet in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (1905) File:Maison blanche 01.jpg|The "Maison Blanche", built for Le Corbusier's parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds (1912) File:Vil…”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
September 1907month
Budapestmentioned
“In September 1907, he made his first trip outside of Switzerland, going to Italy; he then spent the winter traveling through Budapest to Vienna, where he stayed for four months and met Gustav Klimt and tried, without success, to meet Jos…”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
September 1907month
Viennamentioned
“In September 1907, he made his first trip outside of Switzerland, going to Italy; he then spent the winter traveling through Budapest to Vienna, where he stayed for four months and met Gustav Klimt and tried, without success, to meet Jos…”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1908 to 1910period
Parismentioned
“"It was the solution for a unique kind of worker's housing, or rather for a terrestrial paradise." He travelled to Paris, and for 14 months between 1908 and 1910 he worked as a draftsman in the office of the architect Auguste Perret, the…”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
October 1910month
Germanymentioned
“Two years later, between October 1910 and March 1911 he traveled to Germany and worked for four months in the office of Peter Behrens, where Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius were also working and learning.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1912year
La-Chaux-de-Fondsmentioned
“In 1912, he began his most ambitious project yet: a new house for his parents, also located on the forested hillside near La-Chaux-de-Fonds.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1922year
Parismentioned
“In 1922, he and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, a fellow architect and furniture designer, opened a studio in Paris at 35 rue de Sèvres.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1923year
Parismentioned
“Maison La Roche and Maison Jeanneret (1923–24), also known as the La Roche-Jeanneret house, is a pair of semi-detached houses that was Le Corbusier's third commission in Paris.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1924year
Corseauxmentioned
“It also owns the "Small House" he built for his parents in Corseaux on the shores of Lac Leman (1924).”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1926year
Genevamentioned
“In 1926, he entered the competition for the construction of a headquarters for the League of Nations in Geneva with a plan for an innovative lakeside complex of modernist white concrete office buildings and meeting halls.”
source: Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
1926year
1927year
1927year
1928 to 1932period
1928year
1928 to 1931period
28 June 1928exact date
1929 to 1932period
1929 to 1932period
1929 to 1930period
Documented at the same place, the same year
Yayoi KusamaTokyo · 1954Milton FriedmanCambridge · 1954C. S. LewisCambridge · 1954John PopleCambridge · 1954The French AngelParis · 1917Cole PorterParis · 1917Clemens August Graf von GalenParis · 1917Jacques CopeauParis · 1917Eleanor RooseveltUnited States · 1935Theodor W. AdornoUnited States · 1935Henri Cartier-BressonUnited States · 1935James FranckUnited States · 1935
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