Le Corbusier Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America. Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Le Corbusier
Albert Edouard Gilou of Culture supported Gilou's project to establish a collection of France's religious architecture and art, but Gilou's brutal and accidental death in 1961 put an end to the ambitious project. Gilou was married to Miriam Gilou-Cendrars, the daughter and biographer of the writer and poet Blaise Cendrars. They had three children. Albert Edouard Gilou Albert Edouard "Bertie" Gilou (1910-1961) was a French art collector and founding art director of the magazine "". He was also art director of the magazine "Realités" from 1950 to 1961. Gilou was a descendant of Charles Sedelmeyer on his mother's side, and his father, Pierre