This list of Le Corbusier buildings categorizes the work of the architect.
Name | City | State/ Country | Designed | Completed | Other Information | Image |
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Villa Fallet | La Chaux-de-Fonds | Switzerland | 1905 | 1906 | heritage listed | ![]() |
Villa Stotzer | 6, Chemin de Pouillerel La Chaux-de-Fonds | Switzerland | 1907 | 1908 | heritage listed | ![]() |
Villa Jacquemet | La Chaux-de-Fonds | Switzerland | 1908 | 1908 | ||
Villa Jeanneret-Perret | La Chaux-de-Fonds | Switzerland | 1912 | 1912 | heritage listed | ![]() |
Villa Favre-Jacot | near La Chaux-de-Fonds | Switzerland | 1912 | Le Locle | ||
Villa Schwob | La Chaux-de-Fonds | Switzerland | 1916 | 1916 | heritage listed | ![]() |
Scala Cinema | La Chaux-de-Fonds | Switzerland | 1916 | 1916 | Rue de la Serre | |
Water tower | Les Landes | 1917 | 1917 | |||
Château d'eau of Château Chavat | Podensac | France | 1917 | heritage listed | ||
Villa Besnus (Ker-Ka-Ré) | Paris | France | 1922 | 1922 | completely altered [1] | |
Ozenfant House and Studio | Paris | France | 1922 | heritage listed (1975) [1] | ||
Villa Le Lac | Corseaux | Switzerland | 1923 | heritage listed; World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() | |
Villa La Roche | Paris | France | 1923 | 1925 | heritage listed (1996); [3] World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Villa Jeanneret | Paris | France | 1923 | 1925 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | |
Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau | Paris | France | 1924 | 1924 | destroyed; replica built in 1977 in Bologna, Italy | ![]() |
Maisons Lipchitz & Miestschaninoff | Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris | France | 1923 | 1924 | House and studio | |
Studio Miestschaninoff | Boulogne-sur-Seine | France | 1923 | 1924 | Artists studio attached to Maison Lipchitz | |
Tonkin House | Bordeaux | France | 1924 | 1924 | Extension to existing house | |
Housing at Lege | Bordeaux | France | 1924 | |||
Cité Frugès | Pessac | France | 1924 | 1926 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | |
Planeix House | 24 bis, Boulevard Masséna, Paris | France | 1925 | 1928 | heritage listed (1976) [1] | |
Villa Cook | Boulogne-sur-Seine | France | 1926 | 1926 | described by L-C as'La vraie maison cubique' or The true cubic house. [4] | |
Cite de Peuple | Paris 75013 | France | 1926 | 1926 | Salvation Army hostel | |
Maison Guiette / Les Peupliers | Antwerp | Belgium | 1926 | 1926 | House and studio for Rene Guilette; World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Villa Ternisien | 5, Allee des Pins, Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris | France | 1926 | The remains of this building can be clearly seen today beneath the four-storey block which was built over it. Demolished 1935 [1] | ![]() | |
Villa Stein / Les Terraces | Garches, Paris | France | 1926 | 1927 | heritage listed (1975) [1] | |
Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau | Paris | France | 1926 | 1926 | Demolished soon afterwards | |
Two Villas at Weissenhof Estate | Stuttgart | Germany | 1927 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() | |
Villa Savoye | Poissy-sur-Seine, France | France | 1928 | 1931 | heritage listed (1965); [1] World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
gate lodge at Villa Savoye | Poissy-sur-Seine | France | 1928 | 1931 | Heritage listed (1965) World heritage site (2016) | ![]() |
Tsentrosoyuz | Moscow | Soviet Union | 1928 | 1933 | ![]() | |
Villa Baizeau | Tunis | Tunisia | 1928 | 1930 | ![]() | |
Maison Church | Paris | France | 1928 | Demolished | ||
Cité du Refuge of the Armée du Salut | Paris | France | 1929 | 1933 | ||
Salvation Army floating dormatory | River Seine Paris | France | 1929 | 1929 | ![]() | |
Pavillon Suisse | Cité Universitaire, Paris | France | 1930 | 1932 | ![]() | |
Maison Errazuriz | Zapallar | Chile | 1930 | |||
Immeuble Clarté | Geneva | Switzerland | 1930 | 1932 | heritage listed (1986); World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | |
Charles de Beistegui penthouse apartment | Paris | France | 1930 | 1930 | ||
Immeuble Molitor | 24, rue Nungessor & Coli, 75016 Paris | France | 1931 | 1934 | Apartment building with similar facades to two streets. Contains le Corbusier's own apartment; World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | |
Villa le Setout | Marennes | France | 1935 | |||
Young Mans Apartment | Brussels | Belgium | 1935 | |||
Weekend house | La Celle St Cloud | France | 1934 | 1935 | ||
Palace of Ministry of National Education and Public Health | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 1936 | 1945 | (as a consultant to Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and others) | |
Pavilion des Temps Nouveau | Paris | France | 1937 | demolished | ||
Usine Claude et Duval | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | France | 1946 | 1946 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | |
Unité d'Habitation | Marseille | France | 1945 | 1952 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | |
Currutchet House | La Plata | Argentina | 1949 | 1953 | National Historic Monument of Argentina; World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Holiday huts | Cap Martin | France | ||||
United Nations headquarters | New York City | United States | 1952 | (Consultant) | ![]() | |
Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut | Ronchamp | France | 1950 | 1955 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Maison des Pelerins | Ronchamp | France | 1950 | hostel to the above. | ||
Unite des d'Habitations | Reze-les-Nantes | France | 1952 | 1955 | ||
Cabanon de vacances | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin | France | 1949 | 1951 | With Jacques Michel, Jean Prouve and Charles Berberis; World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Work shack | Cap Martin | France | 1954 | 1954 | A small workroom at end of path beside the Cabanon | |
Maisons Jaoul | Neuilly-sur-Seine | France | 1951 | 1954 | heritage listed (1966) [1] | ![]() |
Mill Owners' Association Building | Ahmedabad | India | 1951 | 1956 | ![]() | |
Bhakra Dam | Himalyas | India | 1955 | |||
Villa Sarabhai | Ahmedabad | India | 1955 | 1956 | ||
Villa Shodhan | Ahmedabad | India | 1951 | 1956 | ![]() | |
Sanskar Kendra Museum | Ahmedabad | India | 1951 | 1956 | | |
Palace of Justice / High Court | Chandigarh | India | 1951 | 1959 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Museum and Art Gallery | Chandigarh | India | 1952 | 1968 | | |
Secretariat Building | Chandigarh | India | 1953 | 1953 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Governor's Palace | Chandigarh | India | 1953 | unbuilt | ||
Legislative Assembly / Palace of Assembly | Chandigarh | India | 1956 | 1964 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Sector 17 Central Business Area | Chandigarh | India | 1961 | 1969 | ||
Baghdad Gymnasium | Baghdad | Iraq | 1956 | |||
Unité d'Habitation of Nantes-Rezé | Nantes | France | 1953 | 1955 | heritage listed (2001) [1] | ![]() |
Unité d'Habitation of Briey | Briey en Forêt | France | 1956 | 1957 | heritage listed (1993) [1] | ![]() |
National Museum of Western Art | Tokyo | Japan | 1957 | 1959 | World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Maison du Brésil | Cité Universitaire, Paris | France | 1952 | 1959 | heritage listed (1985) [1] with Louis Costa | ![]() |
Unité d'Habitation of Berlin | Charlottenburg, Flatowallee 16, Berlin | Germany | 1957 | 1958 | Heritage listed [5] | ![]() |
Unité d'Habitation of Meaux | Meaux | France | 1957 | |||
Unite d'Habitation | Briey-en-Foret | France | 1957 | |||
Unite de Camping | Cap Martin | France | 1957 | 1957 | Small camping hostel adjoining Cabanon | |
Philips Pavilion at the 1958 World Expositon | Brussels | Belgium | 1958 | 1958 | Iannis Xenakis was assigned to build it | ![]() |
Government College of Art (GCA) and the Chandigarh College of Architecture(CCA) | Chandigarh | India | 1950 | 1959 | | |
monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette | near Lyon | France | 1957 | 1959 | with Iannis Xenakis; World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | ![]() |
Center for Electronic Calculus, Olivetti | Milan | Italy | 1961 | |||
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts | Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts | United States | 1961 | 1964 | ![]() | |
Unité d'Habitation of Firminy-Vert | Firminy | France | 1960 | 1964 | heritage listed (1993) [1] | |
Firminy-Vert Stadium | Firminy | France | 1965 | 1966 | heritage listed (1984) [1] | |
Maison de la Culture de Firminy / Youth Centre | Firminy | France | 1961 | 1965 | heritage listed (1984) [1] World Heritage Site (2016) [2] | |
Centre Le Corbusier / Heidi Weber Museum | Zurich | Switzerland | 1963 | 1966 | heritage listed | ![]() |
Club House | Chandigarh | India | 1964 | |||
Church of Saint-Pierre, Firminy | Firminy | France | 1960 | 2006 | (built posthumously and completed under José Oubrerie's guidance in 2006) | ![]() |
Baghdad Gymnasium | Baghdad | Iraq | 1956 | 1980 | ![]() |
These countries are listed in chronological order.
1935 house for a College president, Chicago, Ill.
1939 Exhibition pavilion, Liege or San Francisco.
1936 University, Rio de Janeiro.
1964 French Embassy, Brasilia.
1956 Sports Centre, Baghdad.
1962 Ahrenberg Exhibition Pavilion, Stockholm.
1963 International Art Centre, Erlenbach, near Frankfurt upon Main.
1962 Olivetti Computer Centre, Rho-Milan (first version)
1963 Church, Bologna for Archbishop Lercaro.
1963 Olivetti Computer Centre, Rho-Milan.
1964 Hospital Venice (first version).
1965 Hospital Venice (revised version).
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