Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland's Jura region in 1887, named Charles-Édouard Jeanneret – and died during his daily swim (having suffered a heart attack) in his beloved seaside spot in the Cote ...

Photographer Roberto Conte uncovers the hidden gems of Chandigarh’s concrete infrastructure in his new series exploring the Le Corbusier-designed Indian city. The images capture the modernist ...

Le Corbusier deserves better than to be merely “a whipping boy for modernism’s failures,” said Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times. For decades, critics have blamed the Swiss-born architect ...

In the buildings of Balkrishna Doshi, the Indian architect who won this year’s Pritzker Prize, it’s easy to take the light for granted. Years ago, I visited the Ahmedabad campus of CEPT University, ...

Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier would have been 128 today, and its been a big year for his fans: an exhibition on his life’s work at the Pompidou Centre was crowned the museum’s most popular ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A new photography exhibition focuses on the work of Lucien Hervé, Corbu’s official photog for more than 15 years. Modern architecture was forged in concrete, glass, and film. Early modernist ...

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) is regarded as the one of the fathers of Modern Architecture and one of the biggest influencers of urban planning. The Museum of Modern Art has collected over ...

What do an Ikea showroom floor, urban housing projects and Kanye West have in common? They've all been inspired, at least to some degree, by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier. Though his ...

Love him or hate him, you can’t say that Le Corbusier didn’t have a profound impact on the urban landscape. This was the guy, after all, who gave us the projects, or, as he preferred to call them, ...