Word: jeanneret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss-born architect, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, came from a nation that gives social precedence to hotelkeepers and watchmakers. Annoyed by the lack of interest in avant-garde building there, he left Switzerland for good at the age of 30 in 1918, remarking that "the Swiss are clean, industrious, and to hell with them." At the time of his death in 1965, not one of his 75 major buildings could be found within the borders of his homeland...
Nonetheless, the vast majority of the center's visitors seem to like it. Chief among them is Corbu's brother, Composer Albert Jeanneret, 83. Says he: "This is one of Corbu's masterworks, a perfect assembly of volumes and obliques. This house is a part of Corbusier and therefore inimitable...
...later had good cause to recall this first meeting with the angular man in black, who died last week of a heart attack at 77. Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret to a family of Swiss watchmakers, Le Corbusier adopted one of his mother's family names as an artistic signature and set out to become an architect and painter. He embraced the cult of purism, an art style so puritani cal that it purged even the strict geometries of cubism of any traces of anecdote or decoration. And he became a student of Auguste Perret, the pioneer of building with...
Died. Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), 77, brilliant, Swiss-born, French architect of the reinforced concrete age; of a heart attack while swimming off Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France...
...late World War II strategist, Lord Alanbrooke; Poet and Critic Allen Tate, 64, awarded the $5,000 Chancie and William Booth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets by a board of such peers as W. H. Auden and Randall Jarrell; Architect Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 76, promoted to grand officier, next to highest rank of France's Legion of Honor...