Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (), 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 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.
H. Allen Brooks
Brooks also pursued the career of Le Corbusier. His "LeCorbusier's Formative Years: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds", published in 1997, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in biography and won a first prize from the Association of American Publishers for books in architecture and urban planning. Brooks was editor of the 32-volume "LeCorbusier Archive" providing thorough documentation LeCorbusier's practice.