Abstract
The broad outlines of Le Corbusier's theoretical and aesthetic contribution to the shaping of the contemporary world are traced through all the forms of his activity - the architect, urban planner, artist, writer and public figure. A new generation of historical research has transformed our knowledge of his biography and his relationship to politics, while also providing a better understanding of the works themselves.
The starting point is a reminder of the polemics Le Corbusier was the protagonist of as early as 1920, and which inspired André Malraux's funeral oration : " none has signified with such force the revolution of architecture, because none has been so long, so patiently insulted ".
An evocation of the major stages in his career, from the plateaus of the Swiss Jura to the shores of the Mediterranean and the plains of India, provides an initial approach to the links between his work and the most diverse sites traversed by the man who was one of the first global experts on architecture and urbanism.
The description of this trajectory allows us to put forward the main hypothesis underlying the lecture, according to which the landscape, at its different scales and in extremely diverse ways, has never ceased to form the horizon of the architect's work, while also being present in that of the painter.
