Le Corbusier died on 27 August 1965 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, aged 77. 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
- 19 July 1965Introduction of Ghana cedi
- 31 July 1965Birth of J. K. Rowling
- from August 1965 to September 1965Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
- from 21 August 1965 to 27 December 1989Socialist Republic of Romania
- 27 August 1965Death of Le Corbusier
- 5 September 1965Rise of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
- 5 September 1965Construction of Mineirão
- 11 September 1965Birth of Bashar al-Assad
- 14 September 1965Birth of Dmitry Medvedev
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