The vernacular modernism and le corbusier biography

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Painter, designer, architect, theorist, and urban planner: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret – better known by his pseudonym Le Corbusier – was one of the most cross-disciplinary and influential figures of the 20th century.
Talented and divisive, adored and detested, Le Corbusier is one of the rare architects to have built on almost all the continents (only Australia and Antarctica were never on the itineraries of the architect) even before the advent of commercial intercontinental jet service.

He is regarded as a pioneer of modern architecture, a visionary designer of urban utopias for the masses. We retrace both the highlights and contradictions in his career, following the path of his life: from his youth in the Swiss Jura mountains to his death on the shores of the Fre