Le Corbusier was born on 6 October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds. A Swiss-born French architect and urban planner, Le Corbusier, born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, was one of the pioneers of modern architecture. He promoted functional buildings of reinforced concrete, with open plans, pilotis, roof gardens and ribbon windows, set out in his book Towards an Architecture in 1923. His works include the Villa Savoye near Paris, the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, the chapel at Ronchamp and the planning of Chandigarh in India. He also devised the Modulor proportion system. Some of his buildings are on the UNESCO World Heritage list, and his urban ideas have been much debated.
Before and after
- 28 July 1887Birth of Marcel Duchamp
- 8 August 1887Birth of Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- 12 August 1887Birth of Erwin Schrödinger
- 29 September 1887Founding of Hamburger SV
- 6 October 1887Birth of Le Corbusier
- 31 October 1887Birth of Chiang Kai-shek
- 22 December 1887Birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1888Rise of Les Nabis
- 9 January 1888Founding of Financial Times
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- c. 1900sRise of Expressionism
- c. 1900sRise of modernism
- 1907Rise of cubism
- c. 1910sRise of Dada
The era
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