Le Corbusier: Architect of the Modern World

Le Corbusier—born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in 1887—was a Swiss-French architect whose radical theories on modernism, housing, and urban planning reshaped 20th-century design. Art historian Jennie Hirsh situates his work within its political and intellectual context, highlighting landmarks such as Villa Savoye, Villa La Roche, the Unité d’Habitation, Ronchamp Chapel, and Tokyo’s National Museum of Western Art. These projects—many now UNESCO sites—demonstrate how his vision transformed how people live in cities. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)