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• Le Corbusier
  Le Corbusier

  noun

  Charles Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
• Corbusier, Le
  Corbusier, Le

  A twentieth-century French architect and city planner known for designing buildings with unusual curves and unconventional shapes.

Le Corbusier

American  

[luh kawr-by-zyey] / lə kɔr büˈzyeɪ /

noun

1. Charles Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.

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Le Corbusier British  

/ lə kɔrbyzje /

noun

1. real name Charles Édouard Jeanneret. 1887–1965, French architect and town planner, born in Switzerland. He is noted for his use of reinforced concrete and for his modular system, which used units of a standard size. His works include Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles (1946–52) and the city of Chandigarh, India (1954)

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Corbusier, Le Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century French architect and city planner known for designing buildings with unusual curves and unconventional shapes.

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Example Sentences

Le Corbusier, who could be described as a nonbelieving Protestant, had one religion, which was architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Around him orbits a constellation of classmates - caustic, thoughtful, restless - who debate Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, Karl Marx and the price of cigarettes with equal seriousness.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

But he had written the book on Le Corbusier.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

“From 30 years ago, Minoru Mori foresaw competition heating up among cities, rather than among nations,” said Tsuji, who counts Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier among his favorite architects.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

By the window was a Le Corbusier chaise, made of chrome and cowhide.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides