Actor · Director · Writer
Born Oct 6, 1887 · La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Active 1930–1965 · Awards: AIA Gold Medal, Royal Gold Medal, Frank P. Brown Medal, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Sikkens Prize, honorary doctor of ETH Zürich, Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, is a Swiss architect, town planner, decorator, painter, sculptor, author, naturalized French, born October 6, 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) and died August 27, 1965 in…