Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier (French: [lə kɔʁbyˈzje]; 6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland
Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America. Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
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Charles Edward Jeanneret (9 February 1834 – 23 August 1898) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney
Sydney to dentist Henry Jeanneret and Harriet Merrett. As a boy he was sent to Flinders Island
Flinders Island to learn navigation and seamanship, and after a trip to Europe and three years at the goldfields, he settled in Sydney
Sydney around 1857. On 12 June 1857 he married Julia Bellingham, with whom he would have ten children. He worked for the Bank of New South Wales
Bank of New South Wales and lived at Hunters Hill, becoming a well-known local businessman, especially in the steam boat and ferry companies. He was a Hunters Hill alderman and mayor from 1870 to 1871, and served on Sydney
Sydney City Council from 1886 to 1898
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The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne in Paris. The theater is named not after the famed Avenue des Champs-Élysées, but rather after the neighborhood in which it is situated. Opened in 1913, it was designed by French architect Auguste Perret[1] and founded by journalist and impresario Gabriel Astruc
Gabriel Astruc to provide a venue suitable for contemporary music, dance and opera, in contrast to traditional, more conservative, institutions like the Paris
Paris Opera
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The Jura Mountains
Jura Mountains (French: [ʒyʁa]; German: [ˈjuːra], locally [ˈjuːɾa]; French: Massif du Jura; German: Juragebirge; Italian: Massiccio del Giura) are a sub-alpine mountain range located north of the Western Alps, mainly following the course of the France– Switzerland
Switzerland border
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Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈaʊɡʊst ˈfʁøːbl̩] ( listen); 21 April 1782 – 21 June 1852) was a German pedagogue, a student of Pestalozzi who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. He created the concept of the "kindergarten" and coined the word, which soon entered the English language as well. He also developed the educational toys known as Froebel Gifts.Contents1 Biography1.1 Career2 Legacy 3 Works 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksBiography[edit]House in Oberweißbach
Oberweißbach where Friedrich Fröbel
Friedrich Fröbel was born Friedrich Fröbel
Friedrich Fröbel was born at Oberweißbach
Oberweißbach in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in Thuringia
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Budapest
Budapest (Hungarian: [ˈbudɒpɛʃt] ( listen))[11] is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.[12][13][14] With an estimated 2016 population of 1,759,407 distributed over a land area of about 525 square kilometres (203 square miles), Budapest
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Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body,[1] and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.[2] In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art
Japanese art and its methods. Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he developed a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna
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Vienna were criticized as pornographic
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Galluzzo is part of quartiere 3 of the Italian city of Florence, Italy, located in the southern extremity of the Florentine commune
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Concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens over time. Most concretes used are lime-based concretes such as Portland cement concrete or concretes made with other hydraulic cements, such as calcium aluminate cements. However, asphalt concrete, which is frequently used for road surfaces, is also a type of concrete, where the cement material is bitumen, and polymer concretes are sometimes used where the cementing material is a polymer. When aggregate is mixed together with dry Portland cement
Portland cement and water, the mixture forms a fluid slurry that is easily poured and molded into shape
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The Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in southeastern Europe
Europe with various and disputed definitions.[1][2] The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains
Balkan Mountains that stretch from the Serbian-Bulgarian border to the Black Sea. The Balkan Peninsula
Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic Sea
Adriatic Sea on the northwest, the Ionian Sea
Ionian Sea on the southwest, the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea in the south and southeast, and the Black Sea
Black Sea on the east and northeast. The northern border of the peninsula is variously defined
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The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan
Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identifie
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Coordinates: 44°N 21°E / 44°N 21°E / 44; 21Republic of Serbia Република Србија (Serbian) Republika Srbija (Serbian)FlagCoat of armsAnthem: "Боже правде / Bože pravde" "God of Justice"Location of Serbia
Serbia (green) and the disputed territory of Kosovo
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Coordinates: 42°45′N 25°30′E / 42.750°N 25.500°E / 42.750; 25.500Republic of Bulgaria Република България (Bulgarian) Republika BǎlgariyaFlagCoat of armsMotto: Съединението прави силата (Bulgarian) "Sǎedinenieto pravi silata" (transliteration) "Unity makes strength"Anthem: Мила Родино (Bulgarian) Mila Rodino (transliteration) Dear MotherlandLocation of Bulgaria (dark green) – in Europe (green & dark grey) – in the European Union (green) – [Legend]Capital and largest city Sofia 42°41′N 23°19′E / 42.683°N 23.317°E / 42.683; 23.317Official languages BulgarianOfficial script CyrillicEthnic groups (2011[1])84.8% Bulgarians 8.8% Turks 4.9% Roma 1.5% othersReligion Bulgarian O
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Turkey
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye [ˈtyɾcije]), officially the Republic of Turkey
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti [ˈtyɾcije d͡ʒumˈhuɾijeti] ( listen)), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia
Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.[7] Turkey
Turkey is bordered by eight countries with Greece
Greece and Bulgaria
Bulgaria to the northwest; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, the Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan and Iran
Iran to the east; and Iraq
Iraq and Syria
Syria to the south
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Greece
Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία), historically also known as Hellas, is a country located in Southern Europe,[10] with a population of approximately 11 million as of 2016. Athens
Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki. Greece
Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania
Albania to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria
Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey
Turkey to the northeast
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Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, in the Campania
Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum
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Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
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Vesuvius in AD 79. Archaeologists believe that the town was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC by the Osci
Osci or Oscans. It came under the domination of Rome in the 4th century BC, and was conquered and became a Roman colony in 80 BC after it joined an unsuccessful rebellion against the Roman Republic
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