Timeline

1887

Born as Charles-Edouard Jenneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (October 6)

1900 - 1907

L´Ecole d´Art de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

1919

Founding of the journal “L´Esprit nouveau” (with Amédée Ozenfant and Paul Dermée)

1922 - 1940

Runs an architecture studio together with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret.

1928

Foundation of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d´Architecture Moderne)

1929 - 1931

Construction of Villa Savoye, in which Le Corbusier realizes most exemplarily his ideas he had already developed in his publications „Five Points on Architecture“ and „Vers une Architecture“

1965

Died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (August 27)