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Le Corbusier, internationally influential Swiss architect and city planner, whose designs combine the functionalism of the modern movement with a bold, sculptural expressionism. He belonged to the first generation of the so-called International school of architecture and was their most able

Courtesy of Wikimedia She was bold, playful, clever—a true visionary—and she also designed some of the most forward-thinking furniture of the 20th century, much of it under the studio of the great architect Le Corbusier, for whom she worked from 1927 to 1937. Charlotte Perriand, the Parisian-born designer and architect, was known for her tomboyish love of outdoor calisthenics and lived what the French—and Le Corbusier—called lespirit nouveau (the title of his literary magazine publish...