his MAJOR WORK'The 'Styles' are a lie'
- 1905: Villa Fallet, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- 1908: Stotzer House, 6, Chemin de Pouillerel, la Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
- 1912: Villa Jeanneret-Perret, La Chaux-de-Fonds
- 1916: Villa Schwob, La Chaux-de-Fonds
- 1922: Villa Besnus (Ker-Ka-Ré), Vaucresson, Paris, France
- 1922: Ozenfant House and Studio, Vaucresson, Paris. ( much altered.)
- 1923: Villa La Roche/Villa Jeanneret, Paris
- 1924: Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau, Paris (destroyed)
- 1924: Quartiers Modernes Frugès, Pessac, France
- 1925: Villa Jeanneret, Paris
- 1926: Villa Cook, Boulogne-sur-Seine, France
- 1926: Villa Ternisien, 5, Allee des Pins, Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris. ( Block of apartments built over the house.)
- 1927: Villa Stein, Garches, Paris.
- 1927: Pleinex House, 24, Bis Boulevard Massena, Paris 13e.
- 1927: Villas at Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart, Germany
- 1928: Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France
- 1929: Cité du Refuge, Armée du Salut, Paris, France
- 1930: Pavillon Suisse, Cité Universitaire, Paris
- 1930: Maison Errazuriz, Chile
- 1930: Las Nubes, house of Uruguayan novelist Enrique Amorim (Salto, Uruguay)
- 1931: Palace of the Soviets, Moscow, USSR (project)
- 1931: Geneva, Switzerland
- 1933: Tsentrosoyuz, Moscow, USSR
- 1936: Palace of Ministry of National Education and Public Health, Rio de Janeiro (as a consultant to Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and others)
- 1938: The "Cartesian" sky-scraper (project)
- 1945: Usine Claude et Duval, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France
- 1947–1952: Unité d'Habitation, Marseille, France, History of the Prefabricated Home
- 1948: Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina
- 1949–1952: United Nations headquarters, New York City (Consultant)
- 1950–1954: Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France
- 1951: Cabanon de vacances, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
- 1951: Maisons Jaoul, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- 1951: Mill Owners' Association Building, villa Sarabhai and villa Schodan, Ahmedabad, India
- 1952: Unité d'Habitation of Nantes-Rezé, Nantes, France
- 1952–1959: Buildings in Chandigarh, India
- 1952: Palace of Justice (Chandigarh)
- 1952: Museum and Gallery of Art (Chandigarh)
- 1953: Secretariat Building (Chandigarh)
- 1953: Governor's Palace (Chandigarh)
- 1955: Palace of Assembly (Chandigarh)
- 1956: Shodan House
- 1959: Government College of Art (GCA) and the Chandigarh College of Architecture(CCA) (Chandigarh)
- 1956: Museum at Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India
- 1956: Saddam Hussein Gymnasium, Baghdad, Iraq
- 1957: Unité d'Habitation of Briey en Forêt, France
- 1957: National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
- 1957: Maison du Brésil, Cité Universitaire, Paris
- 1957–1960: Sainte Marie de La Tourette, near Lyon, France (with Iannis Xenakis)
- 1957: Unité d'Habitation of Berlin-Charlottenburg, Flatowallee 16, Berlin
- 1957: Unité d'Habitation of Meaux, France
- 1958: Philips Pavilion, Brussels, Belgium (with Iannis Xenakis) (destroyed) at the 1958 World Expositon
- 1961: Center for Electronic Calculus, Olivetti, Milan, Italy
- 1961: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- 1963: House of Man, Zurich, Switzerland
- 1964–1969: Firminy-Vert
- 1964: Unité d'Habitation of Firminy, France
- 1966: Stadium Firminy-Vert
- 1965: Maison de la culture de Firminy-Vert
- 1969: Church of Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France (built posthumously and completed under José Oubrerie's guidance in 2006)
- 1967: Heidi Weber Museum (Centre Le Corbusier), Zurich, Switzerland
his MAJOR WRITTEN WORKS
- 1918: Après le cubisme (After Cubism), with Amédée Ozenfant
- 1923: Vers une architecture (Towards an Architecture) (frequently mistranslated as "Towards a New Architecture")
- 1925: Urbanisme (Urbanism)
- 1925: La Peinture moderne (Modern Painting), with Amédée Ozenfant
- 1925: L'Art décoratif d'aujourd'hui (The Decorative Arts of Today)
- 1931: Premier clavier de couleurs (First Color Keyboard)
- 1935: Aircraft
- 1935: La Ville radieuse (The Radiant City)
- 1942: Charte d'Athènes (Athens Charter)
- 1943: Entretien avec les étudiants des écoles d'architecture (A Conversation with Architecture Students)
- 1945: Les Trios éstablishments Humains (The Three Human Establishments)
- 1948: Le Modulor (The Modulor)
- 1953: Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit (The Poem of the Right Angle)
- 1955: Le Modulor 2 (The Modulor 2)
- 1959: Deuxième clavier de couleurs (Second Colour Keyboard)
- 1966: Le Voyage d'Orient (The Voyage to the East)
his QUOTATIONS
- "You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in..." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
- "Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light."
- "Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
- "The house is a machine for living in." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
- "It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
- "Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
- "The 'Styles' are a lie." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
- "Architecture or revolution. Revolution can be avoided." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
MEMORIALS
Le Corbusier's portrait was featured on the 10 Swiss francs banknote, pictured with his distinctive eyeglasses.
The following place-names carry his name:
- Place Le Corbusier, Paris, near the site of his atelier on the Rue de Sèvres.
- Le Corbusier Boulevard, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
- Place Le Corbusier in his hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
- Le Corbusier Street in the partido of Malvinas Argentinas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
- Le Corbusier Street in Le Village Parisien of Brossard, Quebec, Canada.
- Le Corbusier Promenade, a promenade along the water at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
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