foreign architects

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LE CORBUSIER
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris



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  1887  born in La Chaux-de-Fonds / Switzerland
  1906  builts Villa Fallet
with René Chapallaz
  1907  graduates from La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School
  1908  builts Villa Jacquemet und Stotzer
  1922  opens his own office in Paris
  1930  takes French citizenship
  1937  awarded
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur     
  1947  designs plans for the United Nations HQ Bldg.
  1965  dies in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

WEIßENHOFSIEDLUNG
 
Stuttgart / Germany 1927


NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
Ueno-kôen / Tôkyô 1959