Le Corbusier Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”
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“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
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“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.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : Le Corbusier (1931). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.203, Courier Corporation
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“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.”
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“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”
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“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.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.
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“A house is a machine for living in.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : Vers une Architecture ch. 1 (1923)
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“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.”
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“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press
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“Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.”
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“You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : "Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited". Book by Philippe Boudon, trans. Gerald Onn, 1969.
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“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”
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“You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.”
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“Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.”
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“The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.”
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“Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.”
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“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.”
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“When does a building actually become a built?”
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“Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.”
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“Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.”
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“The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.”
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“My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.”
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“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation
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“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.”
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“Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.”
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“The "styles" are a lie.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation
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“Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation
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“The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.”
-- Le CorbusierSource : Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.19, Courier Corporation
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