Urban Planning in France - French Urban Planners, Industrial Parks in France, Georges-Eugene Haussmann, Le Corbusier (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: French urban planners, Industrial parks in France, Georges-Eugene Haussmann, Le Corbusier, Haussmann's renovation of Paris, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Wall of Philip II Augustus, Paris, Yona Friedman, City walls of Paris, Boulevards of Paris, Grand Paris, Wall of Charles V, Paris, Unite urbaine, Jean-Charles Alphand, Ernest Hebrard, Tony Garnier, Plan de Turgot, Plan de Merian, Synergypark, Pierre Patte, Gustave Massiah, Pole urbain, Societe francaise des urbanistes. Excerpt: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (French pronunciation: October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout central Europe, India, Russia, one in North and several in South America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of a distant ancestor, "Lecorbesier." However, it appears to have been an earlier (and somewhat unkind) nickname, which he simply decided to keep. He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal in 1961. He was born as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small city in Neuchatel canton in north-western Switzerland, in the Jura mountains, just 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) across the border from France. He attended a kindergarten that used Frobelian methods. Young Jeanneret was attracted to the visual arts and studied at the La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School under Charles L'Eplattenier, who had studied in Budapest and Paris. His architecture tea...