Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

1887 - Born on the 6th of October, in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

1907-0911 - He left home as a young man and developed many of his ideas during his travels through Europe.

- He traveled in the Balkans, Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy.

1916 - His system of geometric proportion, first used in villa and expounded in two books, Le Modulor I and Le Modulor II.

1915 - A series of architectural sketches made evident his new and radical approach to the technical and aesthetic problems of building.

1919 - He settled in Paris and his “Citrohan” model for dwelling houses expressed a need for new construction methods.

1920 - He also contributed articles to the review Esprit nouveau, which he had founded with Amédée Ozenfant.

1925 - Ozenfant and Le Corbusier published the magazine L'Esprit nouveau, which preached purist theories.

- He was in partnership with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and they collaborated on the project for the League of Nations Palace in Geneva.

1927 - His competition winning design for the palace of the League of Nations was later rejected on a technicality.

1946 - He was invited to join the international group of architects who designed the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.

1951 - His most ambitious work was the design of the main buildings of the new capital of the Punjab, Chandigarh.

1957-1959 - His last major buildings were the Chapel at Ronchamp, one of the most personal and expressive statements by the architect, and the Dominican monastery of Ste-Marie-de-la-Tourette at Eveux-sur-Arbresle.

1965 - On the 27th of August. Le Corbusier died of a heart attack at Cap-Martin.