Le Corbusier buildings named UNESCO world heritage sites (image heavy)

**nextormento** · 2016-07-18, 11:44 AM

Seventeen buildings designed by Swiss-French architecture pioneer Le Corbusier have become UNESCO world heritage sites, the Swiss government said on Sunday, increasing the chance of conservation funding.

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Originally Posted by france24

“The work of Le Corbusier is a central contribution to modern architecture,” the Swiss government said in its statement.
The architect's properties “embody the exceptional architectural and constructive responses to the social challenges of the 20th century,” it added.
Le Corbusier - famed for calling a house a machine for living in - was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, in 1887. He adopted the alias Le Corbusier - from his maternal grandfather, Lecorbesier - in 1920.

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Originally Posted by unesco

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement (Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland)—Chosen from the work of Le Corbusier, the 17 sites comprising this transnational serial property are spread over seven countries and are a testimonial to the invention of a new architectural language that made a break with the past. They were built over a period of a half-century, in the course of what Le Corbusier described as “patient research”. The Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh (India), the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (Japan), the House of Dr Curutchet in La Plata (Argentina) and the Unité d’habitation in Marseille (France) reflect the solutions that the Modern Movement sought to apply during the 20thcentury to the challenges of inventing new architectural techniques to respond to the needs of society. These masterpieces of creative genius also attest to the internationalization of architectural practice across the planet.

These are the 17 pieces (unesco list)

Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret (France)

Petite villa au bord du lac Léman (Switzerland)

Cité Frugès (France)

Maison Guiete (Belgium)

Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung (Germany)

Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner (France)

Immeuble Clarté (Switzerland)

Immeuble locatif à la Porte Molitor (France)

Unité d’habitation Marseille (France)

La Manufacture à Saint- Dié (France)

Maison du docteur Curutchet (Argentina)

Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp (France)