Article: Becoming Corbusier: a recent exhibition traced the development of this seminal 20th-century figure from provincial designer to modern architectural master. (Architecture).

"He lives in the extraordinary world of the acrobat" was how Le Corbusier referred to himself, describing his profession of architecture in My Work (published in 1960, five years before his death). Throughout the half century that he practiced, he had indeed managed to astound the world with his buildings. At the moment that he emerged in the mid-1920s, seemingly out of the blue, as the modern architect we now revere, he had already created a series of incredible villas for famous clients--art collectors and industrialists--as well as a fully fledged theory of urbanism. Catapulted into celebrity and controversy, here was an adopted citizen of Paris (then the center of the ...

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