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This is a Biographic review of Le Corbusier: [|Dickson Architects in Roanoke] **WHO WAS LE CORBUSIER?** C harles Edouard Jeanneret, who was known as Le Corbusier, was born in 1887 in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland. He was a very famous architect, urban planner and designer. He studied at Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris and he graduated when he was 21. But he declared war to mental narrowness of his colleagues and he wrote this sentence for his drawing teacher: “My fight will be an one against the ignorance”. In his thirties, he gave the French nationality. He introduced the concrete reinforced with steel and he created his own unit of measure, “Modulor” which was based on relations of body size as a basis for building. Some of this architectonic words are designed by him: The Government building for Ghandigarh, India; the French Chancellery for Brasilia, which never was built and “Le Corbusier” Convention Center, which began to build in 1963 in Zurich, Switzerland and was inaugurated in 1967 by Heidy Weber, who was a Swiss galerita had a working relationship with Le Corbusier. He died in 1965, when he was swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, near of his home.