When1: 1928
When2: 1953
Who: Le Corbusier or Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris [Jeanneret-Gris, Charles-Edouard]
What: architect
Where: Switzerland/USA
works\ Villa Savoye [1928 to 1929: at Poissy-sur-Seine, France]; Unité d'Habitation or Housing Unit [1946 to 1952: in Marseilles, France]; United Nations Building [1947 to 1953: modern curtain wall building in New York]; Ronchamp or Nôtre Dame du Haut chapel [1955: with projecting sunscreens, at Ronchamp, France]; Towards a New Architecture [1917: book]
Detail: He lived 1887 to 1965 and designed "machines to be lived in" {machines à habiter}. He built curtain-wall buildings, with steel skeletons and glass sides.
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