Heritage body UNESCO has added 17 projects by 20th-century French architect Le Corbusier to its list of internationally significant architecture sites, including the Unit茅 d'Habitation housing in Marseille ? arguably the most influential Brutalist building of all time (+ slideshow).
The 17 architectural sites that have been added to the World Heritage List are spread across seven countries. They were built over 50 years by the Swiss-born French architect, who has become one of the Modernist movement's most admired and controversial figures.
They include the Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh, India, where Le Corbusier collaborated with his cousin and fellow architect and designer Pierre Jeanerret to build and furnish an entire government city.
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The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan, the House of Dr Curutchet in La Plata, Argentina, and the Unit茅 d'Habitation in France are among the other buildings on the list.
An earlier application to add聽19 Le Corbusier buildings to the list was聽deferred by UNESCO in 2011.
UNESCO said that the Le Corbsuier buildings it聽had chosen to inscribe to the World Heritage List "reflect the solutions that the Modern movement sought to apply during the 20th century to the challenges of inventing new architectural techniques to respond to the needs of society".
"These masterpieces of creative genius also attest to the...