Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Le Corbusier is best known for his influence in forming the 19^th century’s International Style of architecture.  Le Corbusier was also an accomplished painter, designer, and writer.

Born in Switzerland in 1887, he made his way to Paris. In 1917 he settled in Paris where he met the French painter Amédée Ozenfant, with whom he founded the Purist movement.  Their philosophy of painting was to break objects into basic line and form, eliminating unnecessary detail. During the 1920s, Le Corbusier continued painting and experimented with a surrealist vocabulary.

In addition to Le Corbusier’s immense contribution to the notion of modern architecture, his lithographic work was notable. In 1955 he published, La Poeme de l’Angle Droit which consisted of a collection of lithographs and twenty hand written poems by Le Corbusier. Translanting to mean the Poetic Machine, the work explores the notion of the harmony in human life. Le Corbusier believed architecture was essential to the human experience, and that the architecture of one’s own human mind and body were akin to the machine of life. La Poeme de l’Angle Droit explores the essence of one’s individual spirit and mind and their place in the context of one’s surrounding world.