Pierre Jeanneret (1896–1967) was a Swiss architect and designer who worked for about twenty years with his cousin Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, and later shaped much of the Indian city of Chandigarh. Born in Geneva, he studied at the city's School of Fine Arts. In 1922 the cousins opened a joint practice in Paris, and from 1927 to 1937 they worked with Charlotte Perriand. Their partnership broke during the Second World War, when Pierre joined the French Resistance while Le Corbusier worked with the Vichy government; they came together again after the war to plan Chandigarh.
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The Immeuble Molitor in Paris (1934), an apartment block with façades of glass brick and clear glass, was home to Le Corbusier until his death and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In Chandigarh, working with Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, he designed much of the civic architecture and fourteen types of mass housing, and stayed on as the city's chief architect. At Panjab University he designed, with Indian colleagues, the Gandhi Bhawan (1962), surrounded by pools, and the A. C. Joshi Library, Panjab University (1963).
