Le Corbusier
1887–1965 (age 78)
Biography
Le Corbusier, born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in 1887, steered modern architecture into a new age through bold plans and writings that championed light, proportion, and social purpose; alongside his famed buildings he often documented structures with a photographer's disciplined eye.
His Roquebrune-Cap-Martin retreat became both a laboratory and refuge where he continued to sketch and refine ideas about communal living, leaving a legacy that still invites debate about our built environment.