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...elderly architects who still believed in tradition went to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week to listen to the first U. S. lecture of a lean, excitable Swiss in gaudy tweeds and enormously thick horn-rimmed spectacles. The lecturer's name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The traditionalists were outnumbered three to one by excited modernists" and lion-hunting socialites, because M. Jeanneret, 47, better known under his professional name of Le Corbusier, has had more effect than any living man on the development of modern architecture, and has become the patron saint of a whole school...
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret likes to say that his thick glasses were already on his nose when he was born. That event occurred near Geneva in 1888 where his father, from whom he inherits his passion for machinery, was a prosperous watchmaker. He traveled widely, studying architecture in Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Rome, finally set up shop in Paris just before the War. Commissions being slow, he turned to painting and writing essays for art magazines. In 1921 he adopted his mother's family name, Le Corbusier, but still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints...
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret prefers to be known as Le Corbusier, the name of his maternal grandfather. Born near Geneva 44 years ago, the son of a Swiss watchmaker, he studied engraving, traveled in Italy, worked in Vienna. A performance of Puccini's La Boheme sent him to Paris to live. In intervals between struggling with advanced architecture he became a factory manager, publisher of L'Esprit Nouveau, and a painter. In 1923 he published his first book. Vers mi Architecture, which denned all his theories, has had an enormous influence on architects all over the world...
...What will cities look like in the future? What innovations will there be; how will people live in the tall buildings? Two architect-prophets have recently published books* in which each essays to predict the future of the metropolis. Le Corbusier, a Swiss whose real name is Charles Edouard Jeanneret, famed in Paris for his revolutionary ideas and dicta on city-planning, tells didactically and illustrates exhaustively his version of the future. Hugh Ferriss, romantic U. S. draftsman of modernistic architectural elevations in black and white, illustrates his predictions with drawings which he calls "not entirely random shots...