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Le Corbusier

(Encyclopedia)Le Corbusier shärl ādwärˈ zhänərāˈ [key], 1887–1965, French architect, b. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Often known simply as “Corbu,” he was one of the most influential architects of ...

Jeanneret, Charles Édouard

(Encyclopedia)Jeanneret, Charles Édouard: see Le Corbusier. ...

Ozenfant, Amédée

(Encyclopedia)Ozenfant, Amédée ämādāˈ ōzäNfäNˈ [key], 1886–1966, French art theorist and painter. He criticized the cubists after 1912 for creating a merely decorative art form. Ozenfant advocated a dis...

C.I.A.M.

(Encyclopedia)C.I.A.M. (Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne). Founded in 1928 by Hélène de Mandrot, Sigfried Giedion, and Le Corbusier, C.I.A.M. sought to divert architecture from academic preoccupatio...

Duan, Le

(Encyclopedia)Duan, Le: see Le Duan.

Creusot, Le

(Encyclopedia)Creusot, Le lə krözōˈ [key], city, Saône-et-Loire dept., E central France, in Burgundy. ...

Havre, Le

(Encyclopedia)Havre, Le lə äˈvrə [key], city, Seine-Maritime dept., N France, in Normandy, at the mouth of ...

Mans, Le

(Encyclopedia)Mans, Le lə mäN [key], city (1990 pop. 148,465), capital of Sarthe dept., NW France, on the Sarthe River. The historical capital of Maine, it is also an important manufacturing, commercial, educatio...

Le Moyne

(Encyclopedia)Le Moyne lə mwän [key], Canadian family. It was founded by Charles le Moyne, sieur de Longueuil, whose 11 sons were noted soldiers, explorers, and colonizers. The two most famous sons were the sieur...