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Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965)
Born in Switzerland, Jeanneret trained as an artist, then travelled
extensively, and finally settled in Paris. In 1917 he met the
painter and designer Amédée Ozenfant, with whom he developed "Purism"*,
an aesthetic that promoted simple geometric forms. In 1920 they
founded L'Esprit Nouveau, a magazine that proposed
functionalist ideas in architecture and city planning. Articles
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