Word: brise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make downtowns more accessible when Los Angeles was still getting used to stop lights. He envisaged cities with skyscrapers set in green spaces. He developed the original slab building that inspired the 1952 United Nations Secretariat but gave it character by breaking façades with what he called brise-soleils or deeply set sun-shaded windows...
Whatever its architectural advantages, the building unquestionably also has several drawbacks. The fact that the University was unwilling to spend $10,000 or so for heating coils underneath the ramp, makes the ramp useless for some four months of winter each year. The colors on many of the brise-soleil, however attractive, modify the light in several areas of the studios making working in color extremely difficult. And, for those who find the building intriguing in such respects as its constantly changing appearance as one walks past it, there are probably as many who feel that its style fits poorly...
...point. You mention that "the exact positioning of the visors is not duplicated in any previous Le Corbusier work but is vaguely similar to those used in the government buildings of Chandigarh, India. . ." You imply that these are almost completely new, which they are. Actually the visors (more correctly, brise-sollel, invented by Le Corbusier in 1931) cannot be duplicated anyway, if geographical and climatological positions of the buildings differ. Here more than anywhere, form follows function; or better yet, form and function...