In 1900 Le Corbusier Chaux-de-Fonds can at art school École d`Art in his birthplace of La painter, engraver and goldsmith form. In 1904 Le Corbusier starts there studying architecture. The basics that makes it one of the most important architects later, gathers Le Corbusier in leading architects of Europe. His special interest is the modern reinforced concrete construction. 1914 succeeds the development of the skeletal system of reinforced concrete by the name "Domino", which is intended for the use of multi-storey buildings. In 1917 he moved to Paris Le Corbusier, in these first years formed his first oil paintings, mostly structured Still Life. 1919 publishes the magazine "L`Esprit Nouveau". In it he published his avant-garde architectural concepts. With the "Modulor", a rating based on the golden ratio, universally applicable in Architecture and Technology Unit, Le Corbusier developed in 1943 a cross-genre approach that determines his work as an architect, furniture designer and urban planner. In addition to individual buildings - around 1927 in Stuttgart "Weißenhofsiedlung" or the Villa Savoye in Poissy (1929-31) - Le Corbusier was interested in mass-produced urban planning concepts. This will find a wide dissemination through numerous architectural theory writings and Le Corbusier's significant variable interest at the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne and the paper published in 1944 Athens Charter, drafts the guidelines for urban development. Among his most important postwar housing complex "Unité d'habitation" in Marseille and the Sanctuary of Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamps. He is one of the most important and influential architects of the 20th century.

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