Short answers, pulled from the story.
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born on the 6th of October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a city nestled in the Jura Mountains near the French border. His father worked as an artisan who enameled boxes and watches while his mother taught piano to local students.
Le Corbusier adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in 1920 as an altered form of his maternal grandfather's name. This single name allowed him to reinvent himself publicly after collaborating with Amédée Ozenfant to establish Purism.
The five points of architecture include lifting the bulk off the ground using reinforced concrete stilts known as pilotis, creating a free façade, designing an open floor plan, installing long strips of ribbon windows, and adding a roof garden to compensate for green area consumed by the building. These principles were elucidated throughout the 1920s and applied to the Villa Savoye between 1928 and 1931.
The Unité d'Habitation held modular apartments fitted like bottles into a bottle rack to house a total of 1,600 people. The building contained 337 duplex apartment modules that ran from one side of the structure to another with small terraces at each end.
Le Corbusier proposed to demolish a large part of central Paris and replace it with sixty-story cruciform office towers in his 1925 Plan Voisin proposal. The plan included a multi-level transportation hub with depots for buses and trains plus highway intersections where commercial airliners were supposed to land between the huge skyscrapers.