(Charles-Éduard Jeanneret-Gris)
* 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland)
† 1965 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
- apprenticeship as engraver and chaser at the École d’Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds
- 1907–1911 study trips through Europe: active in leading architectural offices in Berlin (with Peter Behrens), Dresden, Vienna and Paris (with Auguste Perret)
- 1914 chair at the art college La-Chaux-de-Fonds
- 1917 moved to Paris
- 1923 book publication “Vers une Architecture”
- 1927two houses for the Weißenhofsiedlung Stuttgart (with Pierre Jeanneret)
- 1928 co-founder of the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
- from 1929 worldwide activity as architect, urban planner and designer
- 1931 Villa Savoye in Poissy
- 1952–1959 government buildings in Chandigarh, India
- 1954 pilgrimage church Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamps
- 1946–1967 four more Unité d’Habitations in France
- 1960 Dominican monastery Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette
