Le Corbusier is arguably one of the most famous architects of the 20th century, albeit a controversial one with his fascist sympathies and defacement of Eileen Gray’s E.1027 with his own murals.

The Chandigarh Capitol Complex, a compound made up of three buildings, three monuments (“Open Hand” included), and a lake, was officially declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.

Seventeen buildings designed by Swiss-French architecture pioneer Le Corbusier have become UNESCO world heritage sites, the Swiss government said on Sunday, opening up the chance of more funding ...

Le Corbusier delivered a masterpiece. The structure neatly encapsulates all his "5 points" of modern architecture, and quickly became the model building for the burgeoning International Style.

What may be Le Corbusier’s best work comes with an asterisk: He died in 1965, five years before construction began on the building. Then, due to financial hardships and political turmoil, the ...

Summing up the typical view, architect and critic Peter Blake wrote in 1960 that Le Corbusier believed a building “should stand in contrast to nature, rather than appear as an outgrowth of some ...

His famous Capitol Complex in Chandigarh, India, for example, is on the list; Le Corb was tapped to build the concrete government building complex in 1950, soon after India’s independence from ...

Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation Plays Host to Design Exhibition: Featuring works from the likes of Rick Owens, Paul Matter and Roxane Lahidji.

Designed by the famed architect Le Corbusier, built under Saddam Hussein then forgotten: such was the fate of a gym in Baghdad that Iraq now wants, with the help of France, to restore to its ...

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was deeply involved in the project in Baghdad for which "around 500 drawings bear his personal signature," said Mina Marefat, a Washington-based ...