Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was among the most influential architects of the 20th century. His five points of architecture and his concept of the machine à habiter reshaped how the world built cities.

Morocco Connection

Le Corbusier never built in Morocco, but Morocco built him. He was an early champion of Beni Ourain carpets from the Middle Atlas, using them in Villa La Roche in Paris (1923–25) and regularly commissioning them from Berber artisans. He matched the geometric abstraction of Amazigh weaving — diamond lozenges, asymmetric grids — with the sleek lines of modernist furniture. Matisse called the rugs "the huge whites." Le Corbusier saw in them what the Beni Ourain had always known: that geometry is the mother tongue of both architecture and textile.

Key Works

Villa La Roche (Paris, with Beni Ourain carpets), Villa Savoye, Unité d'Habitation, Chandigarh