Excursion: Le Corbusier and La Chaux-de-Fonds

La Chaux-de-Fonds was the birthplace of a few people known by many such as Le Corbusier and Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (the Chevrolet bow-tie is said to represent the Swiss cross.)

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) spent only a small part of his career in Switzerland and there are only two of his villas in La Chaux-de-Fonds itself. This one pictured here is the Maison Blanche (white house) which he built in 1912 for this parents. It was his first project as an independent architect. The official website has an English version: Association maison Blanche. A couple more Corbusier related photos from lCdF on my overflow blog.

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