| Although he was born as Charles-Edouard | | | | his plans for what he envisioned as the city of the |
| Jeanneret-Gris, but it is his assumed name that | | | | future. Many in Paris were concerned with the |
| people remember, and Le Corbusier trivia has | | | | housing slums and were trying to figure out new |
| become an important part of the study of | | | | city planning and construction techniques that |
| modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland | | | | were going to provide adequate housing for the |
| and studied art and architecture at the school | | | | hordes of people in the city. Le Corbusier was |
| called La-Chaux-de-Fonds. He travelled a great | | | | envisioning sixty story apartment complexes that |
| deal in his younger years visiting many historic | | | | were going to be the new homes of the future, |
| cities and monuments, frequently sketching in his | | | | and was even commissioned to draw up designs |
| notebook. Many of those sketches and | | | | for the city of Algiers, although his designs would |
| impressions that he gathered from his travels | | | | eventually be rejected. |
| would serve as inspiration for some of his earlier | | | | It is interesting in a Le Corbusier quiz to take |
| buildings. | | | | some time to examine the other areas that he |
| He would spend some time after WW I teaching, | | | | ventured into, for while he was certainly best |
| but a Le Corbusier quiz has him starting his own | | | | known for his architectural efforts he did not |
| architecture firm within a few years after that. He | | | | restrain his interest to that area alone. He was |
| went into business with a cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, | | | | also very active in furniture design, for example, |
| and would work frequently with a painter by the | | | | and was especially known for some of his designs |
| name of Ozenfant over the next thirty years. | | | | of chairs. Politics were also something that Le |
| They would eventually open a regular office within | | | | Corbusier got deeply embroiled in for a period of |
| Paris, and Le Corbusier would become a French | | | | time, mostly during the 1930s. He was a member |
| citizen during these years when their practice was | | | | of the far right, and it was in 1942 after the |
| beginning to build small, single family homes. | | | | rejection of his plans for Algiers that he finally |
| Le Corbusier trivia mentions that much of his time | | | | gave up on politics. |
| was consumed with urbanism and with designing | | | | |