Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier revolutionized the design world, helping to usher in modern architecture and constructing some of the style’s most iconic buildings. While the Swiss-French talent was known for his architectural work and urban planning projects, he was also a designer, painter, and writer—penning some 50 books, including Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture) and Après le cubisme (After Cubism). But he had the largest impact on the fields of modern architecture and city planning, designing legendary buildings and devising influential masterplans, including the urban design of Chandigarh, India, and the never-built, though still influential, Radiant City.