29 Great Quotes By Le Corbusier That Reflect His Thoughts
Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.
To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.
The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.
Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.
You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
The house is a machine for living in.
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.
The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
A house is a machine for living in.
Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
