Le Corbusier is a world-renowned architect, writer and urban planner whose ideas and designs have shaped the way we see architecture today. His eccentric ideas and dedication to ameliorating the negative aspects of urbanization are what led to his five decades of fame in the architectural community. Below is the story of how it became known for what it is today. Le Corbusier was born in a small town in northwestern Switzerland known as La Chaux-de-Fonds on October 6, 1887. Le Corbusier was born Charles-Eduard Jeanneret-Gris before changing his name to Le Corbusier in 1920. He was the second son of a watchmaker Eduard Jeanneret who painted the dials of each watch in their hometown's renowned watch factory. His mother, Madame Jeannerct-Perrct, was a piano teacher and musician. Both parents achieving artistic careers made Le Corbusier unable to have a career where he would utilize his artistic abilities. Growing up in the Jura mountains and his family's love of art are what would later influence his career. By the age of 13 Le Corbusier had finished and left primary school to attend Arts Decoratifs in his hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds. . Here the young Le would learn the art of finishing watches, just like his father, through enamelling and engraving. While attending Arts Decoratifs Le Corbusier was under the influence of his teacher L'Eplattenier who he would later call his "Master" and only teacher. Under the guidance of L'Eplattenier a young Le Corbusier would have learned the history of art, drawing and the naturalistic attributes of the newly developed art. With his profound artistic teachings Le Corbusier soon abandoned his previous career as a watchmaker and continued his education in the field of decoration and art with the intention of finally becoming... medium of paper... known as Union Territory Chandigarh , which became India's first planned city. In this Le Corbusier designed administrative buildings, a university, a court and a parliamentary building. After these projects Le Corbusier continued his architectural and urban planning career until his death on 27 August 1965. Le Corbusier was an influential part of many projects throughout his life and is one of the most renowned architects and urban planners in the world. I believe he has had so much success and fame due to his diverse education and career as a famous architect, urban planner, artist and writer. It is not very common to have such a diverse person as Le Corbusier and I believe that unfortunately many of his designs were too ahead of their time, and his five points of architecture resemble the sustainable approach to construction that we are seeing in our generation.