# Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant found L’Esprit Nouveau, the Purist review that names his public identity

Date: 1920

## The fact

In 1920 Jeanneret and Ozenfant launched L’Esprit Nouveau. In its pages the name [Le Corbusier](/people/le-corbusier) became the public architect. He did not print it alone. Education here is a magazine as a school of looking, including the articles that became Vers une architecture. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

## Context

Ozenfant is related as affiliated. The 1925 pavilion is a later object. Purism in painting is mixed neighbourhood, not extra Facts. Swiss Jura origins are identity, not this Paris review. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Fondation Le Corbusier independently frames the review and the name. MoMA independently collects Purism and Esprit Nouveau materials. Britannica independently treats the 1920s writings. No unique subscriber census is invented. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

Official or archival record: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal (https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/; Fondation Le Corbusier).

## Significance

A founding review is an education path. High confidence on 1920. Later reprints are not 1920. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The 1925 Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau is a separate building-Fact. Mixed effects of Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant found L’Esprit Nouveau, the Purist review that names his public identity are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1920 L’Esprit Nouveau with Ozenfant; the LC name as public. Not established: a unique circulation figure. October 1920 neighbourhood. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

Shared responsibility is part of Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant found L’Esprit Nouveau, the Purist review that names his public identity. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1920-10-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Le Corbusier: https://factrail.ai/people/le-corbusier

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.moma.org/artists/3426
- https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-esprit-nouveau-journal