Unesco has added 17 of Le Corbusier’s sites to its World Heritage List, calling them a “testimonial to the invention of a new architectural language that made a break with the past.”

The sites, which span seven countries, include this Modernist architect’s housing project La Cité Radieuse in Marseille; the Maison Guiette, in Antwerp, Belgium; La Villa Savoye near Paris; the National Museum for Western Art in Tokyo; and Chandigarh in northern India.

“These masterpieces of creative genius,” Unesco said on its website, “also attest to the internationalization of architectural practice across the planet.”

Three new books that re-examine Le Corbusier’s politics and an exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris — on view through Aug. 3 — have set off controversy in France over his involvement with far-right elements in France from the 1920s to the 1940s.