The architectural work of Le Corbusier - An outstanding contribution to the Modern Movement [World Heritage #16]

On 16 July 2016, the World Heritage Committee, meeting in Istanbul for its 40th session, took the decision to inscribe Le Corbusier’s architectural work on the World Heritage List as an outstanding contribution to the Modern Movement. The seventeen sites chosen from Le Corbusier’s work and comprising this transnational serial property are spread over seven countries (Germany, Argentina, Belgium, France, India, Japan and Switzerland) and are a testimonial to the invention of a new architectural language that made a break with the past. They were built over a period of a half-century, in the course of what Le Corbusier described as “patient research”.