Le Corbusier, das Mundaneum and Switzerland
14 July 2024
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
