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...church again in 1944, a local committee headed by a lawyer, a manufacturer and the curé decided to save on building costs, construct the new church in reinforced concrete. Even in provincial Ronchamp, the name of the best architect for the job was obvious: Swiss-born Charles Edouard Jeanneret. world famous under his professional name, Le Corbusier,* as Europe's leading exponent of reinforced concrete...
India's government chose Chandigarh in 1950 as the site for a new Punjab capital, and put aside 167 million rupees (about $35 million) for the project. To lay it out, they chose one of the world's best-known city planners: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, France's aging (65) stormy petrel of architecture. For the man who has spent his career energetically condemning the world's cities, it was the chance of a lifetime...
...Manhattan, and had assisted Rockefeller in his purchase and gift of the building site. Lie's first step was to name Harrison director of planning; then a consulting board of design was brought together from member nations. France sent brilliant, temperamental Le Corbusier (real name: Charles Edouard Jeanneret), famous for developing the city-in-a-park idea in the '20s. The others: Australia's G. A. Soilleux, Belgium's Gaston Brunfaut, Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, Britain's Howard Robertson, Canada's Ernest Cormier, China's Ssu-ch'eng Liang, Russia...
...with a big show of Royal Academy masterpieces. Alongside the drawing-room elegance of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stubbs's picture of two grooms rubbing down the champion seemed as pleasantly direct and fresh as a breeze from green grass. Opined Daily Mail Critic Pierre Jeanneret: "The noblest picture of a horse ever done...
...onetime watch-engraver's apprentice, wry, wiry Le Corbusier (born Charles Edouard Jeanneret) had designed his first house by the time he was 18. When no one would listen to his new theories ("Men are so stupid, I'm glad I'm going to die"), he shocked them into attentiveness. "Should we burn down the Louvre?" he once asked Paris. He told New Yorkers that their skyscrapers were too small. Rome's architecture, he said, is "the damnation of the half educated...