Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and writer, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de P
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Women's Banquet at the Tuileries painted by Viollet-le-Duc (1835)
Vézelay Abbey, Viollet-le-Duc's first restoration project
Facade about 1841, pre-restoration
Le Corbusier
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architectur
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
…and Hendrik Petrus Berlage. He also influenced the first modern architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Auguste Perret, Louis Sullivan, and Le Corbusier, who considered Viollet-le-Duc as the father of modern architecture. English architect William Burges claimed that "We all crib from Viollet-le-Duc…
Le Corbusier in 1964
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), 1920, Nature morte (Still Life), oil on canvas, 80.9 cm × 99.7 cm (31.9 in × 39.3 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Le Corbusier's student project, the Villa Fallet, a chalet in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (1905)
The "Maison Blanche", built for Le Corbusier's parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds (1912)