La Chaux-de-Fonds, Maison blanche, 1912. Photo: TES.

Le Corbusier, das Mundaneum and Switzerland

One of Switzerland’s most famous architects, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, started his career at the School of Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds. He adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in 1920 and was born in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Canton Neuchatel). He died in 1965.

The Pavillon Le Corbusier in Zurich (www.pavillon-le-corbusier.ch) and the Maison Blanche in La Chaux-de-Fonds (www.maisonblanche.ch) tell the story of his life and work.

He never realised his dream of a world museum,  the Mundaneum, however.

(Source: C. Courtiau, Le Corbusier. Education and Training, Projects and Constructions in Switzerland, Bern 2012)

Seven models of his most famous buildings in Switzerland.  Pavillon Le Corbusier in Zürich

La Chaux-de-Fonds, Villa Turque, 1917

Corseaux, Villa “Le Lac” Le Corbusier, 1923

La Chapelle Notre Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp (Alsace), 1953