Image via Documentary original title: A workshop for peace; the creation of the United Nations Headquarters. 2005, UN/Peter Rosen Prod Le Corbusier, known for his pioneering work in modernism ...

when he adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier and launched avant-garde art journal L'Esprit nouveau (The new spirit) with friends. Above: Palace of the League of Nations, Geneva, 1927 Top image ...

This Swiss-French modernist architect, artist, and writer designed marvellous buildings such as the United Nations headquarters ... he chose the pseudonym Le Corbusier, by which he became ...

In 1930, Le Corbusier was tasked with designing a ... Swiss after their handling of the architects' proposal for the League of Nations competition. Eventually, however, they agreed to see it ...

Built upon the remains of both the figurative slaughterhouse of World War II and a literal one, the United Nations headquarters ... including Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier, whose schemes were ...

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He returned to Europe without a single commission. Though Le Corbusier later collaborated on the United Nations Headquarters, the only building he ever designed in North America was the Carpenter ...

Since 1972, nearly a thousand such places of “outstanding universal value to humanity” have been designated by Unesco – the United Nations ... masterpieces by Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French ...