National Museum of Western Art was designed by the Swiss architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887–1965), who is more popularly known as Le Corbusier. It is the only representative example of his work in the Far East; and the "New York Times" review of its opening suggested that the building itself presented an "artistic significance and beauty" which rivaled the paintings inside. The multi-story, reinforced concrete building was completed in March 1959 as a symbol of the resumption of diplomatic ties between Japan and France after World War II. The museum was built to house the collection of works gathered by the industrialist Matsukata Kojiro between 1920
Edouard Bugnion 2012. He then became faculty member of the School of Computer Science at EPFL, Switzerland. Bugnion co-authored papers on operating systems and platform virtualization such as “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors,” in 1997. Bugnion is also an angel investor in startup companies such as Cumulus Networks. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017. Edouard Bugnion Edouard "Ed" Bugnion (born 1970) is a Swiss software architect and businessman. Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Bugnion graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from ETH Zurich in 1994 and a master's degree from Stanford University in 1996.