Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, born October 6, 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and died August 27, 1965 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, better known under the pseudonym of "The Corbusier ", is an architect, planner, decorator, painter, sculptor and writer, Swiss by birth and naturalized French in 1930. This is one of the main representatives of the modern movement with, among others, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto and Theo van Doesburg. Le Corbusier also worked in urban planning and design. It is known for being the inventor of "dwelling unit" concept on which he began work in 1920, expressing a theoretical reflection on collective housing. "The dwelling of magnitude compliant" (name given by Le Corbusier) will be constructed at the time of reconstruction after the Second World War, in all five different copies, Marseille, Briey-en-Forêt, Rezé Firminy and Berlin. She will value solution to housing problems of the postwar period.

Questions:

1° When I was born, he was:
a)-German
b) -Swedish
c) -Austrian
d) -Swiss

2° Le Corbusier created:
a)-Buildings
b)-Ships
c)-Planes
d) -Cars

3° His nickname "Le Corbusier" is derived from:
a)-His hometown
b)-One of his ancestors
c)-The name of your favorite bird: the crow
d)-His first work.

by Céline Valmori