-Le Corbusier was a Swiss-born French architect who belonged to the first genera

tion of the so-called International school of architecture.

-In 1917, he moved to Paris and assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier. In his archi
tecture, he chiefly built with steel and reinforced concrete
and worked with elemental geometric forms. Le Corbusier's painting emphasized c
lear forms and structures, which corresponded to his architecture.
-His family's Calvinism, love of the arts and enthusiasm for the Jura Mountains,
where his family fled during the Albigensian Wars of the 12th
century, were all formative influences on the young Le Corbusier.
-After designing his first house, in 1907, at age 20, Le Corbusier took trips th
rough central Europe and the Mediterranean, including Italy, Vienna,
Munich and Paris. His travels included apprenticeships with various architects,
most significantly with structural rationalist Auguste Perret,
a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction, and later with renowned architect
Peter Behrens, with whom Le Corbusier worked from October 1910 to March 1911,
near Berlin
-These trips played a pivotal role in Le Corbusier s education. He made three majo
r architectural discoveries. In various settings, he witnessed and absorbed the
importance of (1) the contrast between large collective spaces and individual c
ompartmentalized spaces, an observation that formed the basis for his vision of
residential buildings and later became vastly influential; (2) classical propor
tion via Renaissance architecture; and (3) geometric forms and the use of landsc
ape
as an architectural tool.

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frst house- FALLET HOUSE