Celebrate Le Corbusier’s Birthday With These Modernist Masterpieces

Artnet News October 6, 2015 ShareShare This Article

Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier would have been 128 today, and its been a big year for his fans: an exhibition on his life’s work at the Pompidou Centre was crowned the museum’s most popular architecture show ever, after more than 260,000 visitors flocked to see it this summer.

Earlier this year, the Pompidou and the Le Corbusier Foundation announced that they would be launching a research project that will investigate the architect’s life and beliefs during the 1930s and World War II. Their findings will be presented in a symposium in 2016.

While there are only two Le Corbusier buildings in the United States—the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University and the United Nations headquarters in New York, where he was a consultant—if you’re in France, Switzerland, or India, we suggest taking a pilgrimage to one of the mater architect’s modernist masterpieces. Or just check out some of our favorites below.