He invented his own system of proportions using human measurements known as the Modulor. Commissioned to replace a war-ravaged church, he designed a gigantic white stone-and-concrete structure with a sweeping roof, eccentric windows, and a silo-like projection, the Notre Dame du Haut. He discussed his five points of architecture in his influential essay collection Towards a New Architecture, a strategy exemplified in his Villa Savoye, and he co-designed the U.N.'s New York headquarters. FTP, name this early proponent of the International School, a Swiss/French architect.
He invented his own system of proportions using human measurements known as the Modulor. Commissioned to replace a war-ravaged church, he designed a gigantic white stone-and-concrete structure with a sweeping roof, eccentric windows, and a silo-like projection, the Notre Dame du Haut. He discussed his five points of architecture in his influential essay collection Towards a New Architecture, a strategy exemplified in his Villa Savoye, and he co-designed the U.N.'s New York headquarters. FTP, name this early proponent of the International School, a Swiss/French architect.
He invented his own system of proportions using human measurements known as the Modulor.
Le Corbusier [or Charles-Edouard Jeanneret]