Le CorbusierCharles-Edouard Jeanneret is an internationally known, influential Swiss architect and urban planner whose designs combine the functionalism of the modern movement with bold sculptural expressionism. He belonged to the first generation of the so-called International School of Architecture and was its most skilled propagandist in his numerous writings. In his architecture he combined the functionalist aspirations of his generation with a strong sense of expressionism. He was the first architect to make studied use of raw concrete, a technique that satisfied his taste for asceticism and sculptural forms. Education and early years Le Corbusier was born in a small town in the mountainous region of the Swiss Jura, as early as the 18th century. century the world center of precision watchmaking. Throughout his life he was marked by the harshness of this environment and the puritanism of a Protestant environment. At the age of 13, Le Corbusier left primary school to learn to enamel and engrave watch dials, his father's trade, at the École des Arts Décoratifs in La Chaux-de-Fonds. There, Charles L'Eplattenier, whom Le Corbusier later called his only teacher, taught him art history, drawing, and the naturalist aesthetics of Art Nouveau. It was L'Eplattenier who decided that Le Corbusier, after completing three years of studies, should become an architect and gave him his first practice on local projects. From 1907 to 1911, on his advice, Le Corbusier undertook a series of trips that played a decisive role in the training of this self-taught architect. During these years of travel through Central Europe and the Mediterranean, he made three important architectural discoveries. The Ema Charterhouse in Galluzzo, in Tu...... middle of paper......: an art center for Frankfurt (1963), the Olivetti computer center in Milan (1963), the Palais des Congrès in Strasbourg (1964) and the French embassy in Brasilia (1964). Le Corbusier died suddenly in 1965 while swimming. The man who was thought to be so misunderstood in his time was given a national funeral and in 1968 the Le Corbusier Foundation was created. Works consulted The complete architectural work, ed. by Willy Boesiger et al. 7 vol. (1935-65), Le Corbusier: last works, ed. by Willy Boesiger (1970).Le Corbusier, ed. by Boesiger (1972), Le Corbusier (1960). Peter Blake, Le Corbusier: Architecture and Form (1964). Stanislaus Von Moos,Le Corbusier: elements of a synthesis (1979).Maurice Besset,Who was Le Corbusier? (1968). Charles Jencks, Le Corbusier and the tragic vision of architecture. (1974) (ed.), Russell Walden