Quotes by Le Corbusier - Page 1

The "styles" are a lie.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Lying
Style
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Cameras get in the way of seeing.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Cameras
Seeing
Way
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A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Life
Architecture
Home
House
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The city that has speed has success.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Cities
Speed
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By law, all buildings should be white.
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Building
Law
White
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Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
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Architecture
Chairs
Sofas
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When does a building actually become a built?
Le Corbusier / Architect
Architecture
Building
Doe
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The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Home
Should
Treasure
Living
Chest
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You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Architect
Knows
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The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Architecture
Light
Struggle
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The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Creating
Creative
Moments
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Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
Le Corbusier / Architect
House
Our World
World
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Art
Drawing
Faster
Lying
Talking
Prefer
Less
Leaves
Lies
Room
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Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
Le Corbusier / Architect
New York
Cities
Manhattan
Vehement
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You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Fighting
Revolution
States
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Architecture
Design
Function
Objects
Order
Create
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Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Beautiful
Cities
World
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Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Expression
Light
Structure
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The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
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Moving
Purpose
Together
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Architecture
Games
Light
Magnificent
Game
Forms
Correct
Learned
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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Cities
House
Waiting
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My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Feelings
Principles
Research
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A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Le Corbusier / Architect
New York
Design
Architect
Beautiful
Catastrophe
Hundred
Hundred Times
York
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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Space
Order
Sky
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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 Corbusier / Architect
Eye
Style
Unhappiness
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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Roots
Social Unrest
Today
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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 Corbusier / Architect
Design
Men
Space
Bread
Light
Order
Sleep
Much
Those
Just As Much
Place
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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.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Art
Fate
Mean
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We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Determination
Planning
Towns
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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.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Green
Noise
Reign
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Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Machines
Order
Sacrifice
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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 Corbusier / Architect
Eye
Light
Play
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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.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Men
Creating
Joy
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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.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Hands
Needs
Simple
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The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Play
Simple
Wall
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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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Fashion
Modern
States
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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.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Cities
Citizens
Planning
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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.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Citizens
Stones
Tree
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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 Corbusier / Architect
Art
Beautiful
House
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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.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Cities
Cosmos
Heart
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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.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Heart
Two
Usa
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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.
Le Corbusier / Architect
Beautiful
Children
Eye
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