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Villa Schwob, 1912, Le Corbusier

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Kisairis Espinal  Villa Schwob Villa Schwob was built in 1912 in Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, it's is the third largest city in French after Geneva and Lausanne. The architect on this project is Le Corbusier this was also his birthplace which is known for its unique architecture, microelectronics and its culture and sporting life. Throughout Le Corbusier career this is one of his least known projects due to the fact that he was a training architect during that time frame. This was a start of later issues that would become hallmarks of Le Corbusier, as his roof garden and spacious plan. There was a letter written to Ritter on June 1920, Jeanneret saw this house and right away she saw so many potentials, her idea was to incorporate new program she said ”I am devoted to serious works, even scientific, that is, to paintings that are at least the continuation of my House Schwob… But I look primarily at the Parthenon and Michelangelo… a reliable art. And ...