<p>45 years ago, the Swiss architect Le Corbusier died</p>

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin - Simple shapes and clean surfaces through which sunlight can freely pass, rooftop gardens, and dominating materials of reinforced concrete, steel, and glass. This was the style of Swiss-French architect and painter Le Corbusier, who died on August 27, 1965. Purism, as he called this style, inspired many other architects, including those from the Czech Republic.
    His austere reinforced concrete buildings and visionary ideas for residential megacities earned him not only admiration but also misunderstanding and condemnation. He unsuccessfully attempted to bring his theory of "vertical garden cities," in which everything was to be grand: large buildings, large open spaces, large highways, to life in India in the city of Chandigarh, and his students tried the same in Brasília.
    Born Charles Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, he created, in addition to world-famous furniture designs, a collection of sculptures, paintings, drawings, gouaches, collages, graphics, and tapestries, and also lectured several times in Prague. He was fascinated by the Trade Fair Palace and created a plan for the development of Zlín, which remained unrealized. He then assessed the appearance of Karlovy Vary as "a swarm of whipped cream cakes." Several Czech architects also worked in Le Corbusier's studio.