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Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French modern architect, urban planner, designer, sculptor, painter, and writer. His work can be seen in Chandigarh's architectural designs and the way the city has been planned. This covers his time spent in Chandigarh, S.D. Sharma's house and how the Mosque, Gurudwara, Church and the residential sectors were planned. Few architects have a schnauzer that they name "Pinceau" ("Paintbrush"). Fewer still use their deceased schnauzer's skin and hair as the binding for a copy of Don Quixote. And there are few architects who can compare with the stature of Le Corbusier. He was one of the key designers who formulated the ideas behind a truly modern, avant-garde architecture during the interwar period. Le Corbusier's ideas about immense, rationalized, zoned, and industria
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