tion he designed the Palace of Justice, the Secretariat, and the Palace of the Assembly. Unfinished concrete, with windows sheltered by enormous concrete sunshades, the sculptural facades, swooping rooflines, and monumental ramps are principal elements of his architecture, which immediately influenced architects all over the world. He built the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo (1960), the Carpenter Visual Art Center at Harvard University (1964), and designed an Exposition Pavilion in Zrich that was constructed posthumously (1964).Le Corbusier was not greatly impressed by his late recognition. He seemed to prefer the image of a solitary and persecuted genius. Nevertheless, he continued to conceive new projects until the end of his life: an art centre for Frankfurt (1963), the Olivetti computer centre in Milan (1963), the Palais des Congrs in Strasbourg (1964), and the French embassy in Braslia (1964). Le Corbusier died suddenly in 1965 while swimming. The man who had thought himself so misunderstood in his own time was given a national funeral, and in 1968 the Le Corbusier Foundation was created. Works Consulted The Complete Architectural Works, ed. by Willy Boesiger et al. 7 vol. (1935-65), Le Corbusier: Last Works, ed. by Willy Boesiger (1970). Le Corbusier, ed. by Boesiger (1972),Le Corbusier (1960). Peter Blake, Le Corbusier: Architecture and Form (1964). Stanislaus Von Moos, Le Corbusier: Elements of a Synthesis (1979).Maurice Besset, Who Was Le Corbusier? (1968). Charles Jencks, Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture. (1974) (ed.), Russell Walden...
