* Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, designed by Le Corbusier

It was during this time that he followed closely the work of the main driving force behind the new modernism, Le Corbusier, and visited him in his Paris office several times in the following years.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

* Sainte Marie de La Tourette, modernist Dominican monastery designed by Le Corbusier

Important museums in Ghent are the Museum voor Schone Kunsten ( Museum of Fine Arts ), with paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Paul Rubens, and many Flemish masters ; the SMAK or Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst ( City Museum for Contemporary Art ), with works of the 20th century, including Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol ; and the Design Museum with masterpieces of Victor Horta and Le Corbusier.

" Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition " at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, in 1988 was the first comprehensive presentation of the Dutch architect's original works ever held in the U. S. The highlight of a celebratory “ Rietveld Year ” in Utrecht, the exhibition “ Rietveld ’ s Universe ” opened at the Centraal Museum and compared him and his work with famous contemporaries like Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.

He was unhappy with the focus at both schools on Beaux-Arts architecture, and spent his free time researching the emerging architects, especially Le Corbusier.

In the library he found three books by the Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier.

Zeckendorf loved the design and even showed it off to Le Corbusier when they met.

His preference for clarity and order influenced the Purist style of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret ( Le Corbusier ), and made Gris an important exemplar of the post-war " return to order " movement.

Hartmann also involved sculptors and artists such as Jean Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Joan Miró in exhibitions at Musica Viva.

Along with Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

He began his architectural career as an apprentice at the studio of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1912, where he was exposed to the current design theories and to progressive German culture, working alongside Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965 ), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of a distant ancestor, " Lecorbésier.

Le Corbusier taught at his old school in La-Chaux-de-Fonds during World War I, not returning to Paris until the war was over.

In 1918, Le Corbusier met the Cubist painter Amédée Ozenfant, in whom he recognised a kindred spirit.

Ozenfant and Le Corbusier established the Purist journal L ' Esprit nouveau.

In the first issue of the journal, in 1920, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret adopted Le Corbusier, an altered form of his maternal grandfather's name, " Lecorbésier ", as a pseudonym, reflecting his belief that anyone could reinvent themselves.

Between 1918 and 1922, Le Corbusier built nothing, concentrating his efforts on Purist theory and painting.

In 1922, Le Corbusier and his cousin Jeanneret opened a studio in Paris at 35 rue de Sèvres.

Abbadie visited Holland to see his La Vérité through the press, and stayed more than three years in Amsterdam, 1720 – 23, during the preparation of Le Triomphe and other works.

That summer the two friends visited Oxford and finding the new Oxford Union debating-hall under construction, pursued a commission to paint the upper walls with scenes from Le Morte d ' Arthur and to decorate the roof between the open timbers.

With this object in view he visited the colliery of Anzin in northern France, in February 1884 when a strike was on ; he visited La Beauce ( for La Terre ), Sedan, Ardennes ( for La Débâcle ) and travelled on the railway line between Paris and Le Havre ( when researching La Bête humaine ).

In 1894 Count Rudolph Festetics de Tolna, his wife Eila ( née Haggin ) and her daughter Blanche Haggin visited Funafuti aboard the yacht Le Tolna.

Le Pen visited Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in 1990, and subsequently considered him a friend.

The FN drew most support in Central and Eastern Europe, and Le Pen even visited the Turkish Welfare Party.

Wodehouse frequently visited his friend Charles Le Strange at Hunstanton Hall and it became an influence for a number of the locations in his comic novels.

In April 1842, Nasmyth visited France with a view to supplying the French arsenals and dockyards with tools and while he was there took the opportunity to visit the Le Creusot works.

He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates.

Abroad, he visited Le Havre, Paris, and London, spending time with friends including Story, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Leigh Hunt.

Haller then visited London, making the acquaintance of Sir Hans Sloane, William Cheselden, John Pringle, James Douglas and other scientific men ; next, after a short stay in Oxford, he visited Paris, where he studied under Henri François Le Dran and Jacob Winslow ; and in 1728 he proceeded to Basel, where he devoted himself to the study of higher mathematics under John Bernoulli.

A view of the busy port of Ayas ( city ) | Ayas when Marco Polo visited it in 1271, in " Le Livre des Merveilles ".

Le Parnasse François, a famous 1732 book by Évrard Titon du Tillet, contains an account of Chambonnières's visit: apparently Louis, François, and Charles visited Chambonnières on the feast of Saint James — Chambonnières ' name day — and offered the host and his guests a short concert, playing several pieces composed by Louis.

They then made the week-long passage on an ocean liner to Le Havre, and from there visited Paris, Monte Carlo, Genoa, Rome, Pompeii, Florence, Venice, Vienna, the Swiss Alps, Belgium, the Netherlands, and London.

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, who was heavily overweight, used a specially constructed " love seat " ( siege d ' amour ) when he visited the famous brothel, Le Chabanais in Paris.

The French journalist Ivan de Woestyne, who visited the town in July 1876, reported for the newspaper Le Figaro that out of a population of about 2000 only 150 elders and children were left.

Interviewed by the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz about the fact that some of her European senior colleagues had formed alliances with, and visited, some Israeli settlers and groups, Marine Le Pen said: " The shared concern about radical Islam explains the relationship ... but it is possible that behind it is also the need of the visitors from Europe to change their image in their countries ... As far as their partners in Israel are concerned, I myself don't understand the idea of continuing to develop the settlements.

In a well-known joke ( 1976 ), Daniel Prévost in the TV show " Le petit rapporteur " animated by Jacques Martin, visited the town and joked by asking a Montcuquois: " Is Montcuq well lit?

In 1947 a delegation from Glasgow visited Marseilles to see the new social housing designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, who was a pioneer of modern urban planning.

While serving as secretary to the bishop of Le Puy he visited Italy, where he learned Italian poetry.