Top 39 Le Corbusier Quotes
#1. A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.
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#2. Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.
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#3. 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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#4. The home should be the treasure chest of living.
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#5. Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light
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#6. To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
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#8. Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
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#9. Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
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#11. 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.
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#12. My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life
the poetry.
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#13. Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
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#14. Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
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#18. The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
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#19. The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.
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#20. Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
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#22. 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.
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#23. I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
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#24. You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
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#25. It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
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#26. 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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#27. You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#31. A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on. Our
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#32. 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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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
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#36. The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
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#37. The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch. The equilibrium of society today depends upon it. Architecture has for its first duty, in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of values, a revision of the constituent elements of the house.
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#38. 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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#39. When does a building actually become a built?
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