Le Corbusier - Architect/Artist (1887 - 1965)
Convent of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette (1960 - completed)
If you are interested in the origins of modernist architecture with it's infamous offshoot - that became better known as brutalism style, one of the key instigators of that style of construction was Le Corbusier, who also created the term brutalism, or Béton brut style. Which if you look at in a critical light - you can see that, as Le Corbusier was also an artist, it was his development of the raw textures of concrete and brick in building design. Almost like the heavy brushwork in his art, over taking the details, within a modernist painting - a layering of heavy colors to strongly define starkness in it's expression.
It was his ideals of accessibility from art to accommodation, for the lower classes, a motivation to design by Le Corbusier that has it's roots in early French Utopian socialism. Which lead him to create the Unite d’Habitation, Marseille (1952). From this building, the brutalist movement spawned, spreading throughout Europe.
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