Corbusier

British  

/ kɔrbyzje /

noun

1. Le. See Le Corbusier

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Example Sentences

Another interesting item in the collection was a rare lounge chair designed by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, who was invited to India in the 1950s by then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to help design Chandigarh city.

From BBC

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret—far better known by his pseudonym, Le Corbusier—was the great guru of Modernist architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hovering above the village of Ronchamp, it still relies on concrete, but any further connection to Le Corbusier’s previous buildings seems to end there.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it is also an exhilarating work of art, in which the more conceptual elements of Le Corbusier’s architecture—light, space and landscape—are interpreted in new and uncanny ways.

From The Wall Street Journal

Le Corbusier’s biographer Nicholas Fox Weber connects Notre-Dame du Haut to the architect’s own history; he believes that the building’s references to Mary also refer to Le Corbusier’s own mother, Marie Charlotte, a musician with whom he had a fraught relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal