translate English to German: Between October 1910 and March 1911 he worked for the renowned architect Peter Behrens near Berlin , where he met a young Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and became fluent in German . Both of these experiences proved influential in his later career.
Sein Pseudonym Le Corbusier, der Name seines Großvaters, nimmt er am Beginn der 1920er Jahre in Paris – u.a. in Anlehnung an den Namen seines Lehrmeisters L'Eplattenier – an.