Initially a designer of watches, he trained in La-Chaux-de-Fonds under Charles L'Eplattenier.
Initially a designer of watches, he trained in La-Chaux-de-Fonds under Charles L'Eplattenier. The Modulor, his ideal system of measurement based on the Golden Section, was used in his design for the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille. Many of his buildings, such as the Carpenter Center at Harvard, had been constructed on pilotis, obvious external pillars that make a building appear to float. He compared the Acropolis to automobiles and ocean liners in his most famous work, in which he declared that houses must be "machines for living." FTP, name this Swiss-French architect who wrote Towards a New Architecture and designed Notre-Dame du Haut and the Villa Savoye.
Initially a designer of watches, he trained in La-Chaux-de-Fonds under Charles L'Eplattenier.
Le {Corbusier} (or {Charles}-{Edouard Jeanneret})